Secretaría de Doctorado y Posdoctorado de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Facultad de Ciencias de la Empresa, Universidad Continental, Huancayo, Peru.
Front Public Health. 2022 Jul 25;10:934087. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.934087. eCollection 2022.
Sanitary control mechanisms differ greatly from country to country. Therefore, it is important to know citizens' perception of different realities. We aimed to determine the factors associated with the perception of inadequate sanitary control in 12 Latin American countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This is an analytical cross-sectional study. We asked about six perceptions in regard to different situations experienced by inhabitants of 12 Latin American countries during the pandemic. Frequencies according to country were described and associations vs. other important variables were obtained.
Out of 8,489 participants, 68% stated that there were moments of collective hysteria. Honduras was the country that most perceived inadequate control mechanisms established by the government. Multivariate analysis showed that there were statistically significant differences among many of the countries according to the six evaluated items. The higher the level of education, the greater the perception of poor control in five of the aspects. Additionally, men had a lower perception of inadequate control. The older the age, the lower the perception of inadequate control regarding whether there was collective hysteria and shortages of basic essentials. Those with COVID-19 had a lower perception of medicine shortages.
The population of multiple realities in Latin America have perceived a bad management of the pandemic. Citizens' perception is an important indicator of the performance of each government during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study may provide valuable information on the relationship between the effectiveness of government sanitary control and people's mental health, which ultimately helps to create objective prevention programs against post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, fear of contagion, and collective hysteria. In addition, governments could use this information to design effective mitigation plans for future unavoidable pandemic events based on the six criteria discussed here.
卫生控制机制在各国之间存在很大差异。因此，了解公民对不同现实的看法非常重要。我们旨在确定在 COVID-19 大流行期间，与 12 个拉丁美洲国家居民对卫生控制不足的看法相关的因素。
这是一项分析性的横断面研究。我们询问了 12 个拉丁美洲国家的居民在大流行期间经历的六种不同情况的看法。根据国家描述了频率，并获得了与其他重要变量的关联。
在 8489 名参与者中，68%表示有过集体歇斯底里的时刻。洪都拉斯是大多数人认为政府制定的卫生控制机制不足的国家。多变量分析表明，在所评估的六个项目中，许多国家之间存在统计学上的显著差异。教育水平越高，在五个方面对控制不佳的看法就越大。此外，男性对控制不力的看法较低。年龄越大，对集体歇斯底里和基本必需品短缺的控制不足的看法就越低。患有 COVID-19 的人对药物短缺的看法较低。
拉丁美洲多个现实的人口对大流行的管理不善有感知。公民的看法是每个政府在 COVID-19 大流行期间表现的重要指标。本研究可以提供有关政府卫生控制有效性与人们心理健康之间关系的有价值的信息，这最终有助于针对创伤后应激障碍、抑郁、对感染的恐惧和集体歇斯底里症等制定客观的预防计划。此外，政府可以根据这里讨论的六个标准，利用这些信息为未来不可避免的大流行事件设计有效的缓解计划。
