Das Subrata, Chakraborty Avik, Chandra Samatirtha
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, ESI PGI MSR, ESIC Medical College and ESIC Hospital and ODC (EZ), Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Department of Psychiatry, ESI PGI MSR, ESIC Medical College and ESIC Hospital and ODC (EZ), Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
J Educ Health Promot. 2022 Jan 31;11:17. doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_526_21. eCollection 2022.
COVID-19 pandemic has changed the life of people in many facets, economic, social, and psychological. Frontline health-care workers (HCWs) fighting against this pandemic faced some psychological as well as social issues which are of major concern. The objective of the study is to evaluate the magnitude of mental health problems, namely depression, anxiety, and stress among frontline HCWs as well as their perception on ongoing events and surroundings.
It was a prospective, observational study on n = 85 HCWs over a 4-month period. Study participants were sampled purposively in accordance with inclusion and exclusion criteria; data were collected by online survey method. A semi-structured scale was used: Part A of which assessed the demography and perception of HCWs on surrounding along with ongoing social events and Part B consisted of the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale-21 that was used to assess mental health issues. All the associations were tested in percentages and proportions. Statistics was calculated by using SPSS 24 version.
Majority of the participants were female doctors and belonged to 21-30 years' age group. Most of them were marginally worried of contacting infection (73%) but were substantially apprehensive of transmitting infection to their family (56.5%) and hoped positive outcome ultimately in the form of recovery from infection. Majority (96.4%) gathered information from authentic sources and were confident of adequacy of their knowledge. Majority (88.3%) were satisfied about their occupational safety and responded on scientific solution of pandemic. However, we got a mixed result about their professional appreciation. Depression symptom score was higher than anxiety and stress symptom score in our participants.
Doctors and nurses both were suffering from mental health issues, and provision of adequate information and occupational safety may lessen these burdens.
新冠疫情在经济、社会和心理等诸多方面改变了人们的生活。抗击这一疫情的一线医护人员面临着一些备受关注的心理和社会问题。本研究的目的是评估一线医护人员心理健康问题的严重程度，即抑郁、焦虑和压力，以及他们对当前事件和周围环境的认知。
这是一项对85名医护人员进行为期4个月的前瞻性观察研究。研究参与者根据纳入和排除标准进行有目的抽样；数据通过在线调查方法收集。使用了一个半结构化量表：其中A部分评估医护人员的人口统计学特征以及他们对周围环境和当前社会事件的认知，B部分由抑郁、焦虑和压力量表-21组成，用于评估心理健康问题。所有关联均以百分比和比例进行检验。使用SPSS 24版本进行统计计算。
大多数参与者是女医生，年龄在21至30岁之间。他们中的大多数人对感染接触略有担忧（73%），但对将感染传播给家人深感担忧（56.5%），并希望最终能以从感染中康复的形式取得积极结果。大多数（96.4%）从可靠来源获取信息，并对自己知识的充分性充满信心。大多数（88.3%）对自己的职业安全感到满意，并对疫情的科学解决方案做出了回应。然而，我们在他们的职业认可度方面得到了喜忧参半的结果。在我们的参与者中，抑郁症状得分高于焦虑和压力症状得分。
医生和护士都存在心理健康问题，提供足够的信息和职业安全可能会减轻这些负担。
