Hospital workforce mental reaction to the pandemic in a low COVID-19 burden setting: a cross-sectional clinical study.


Journal

European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience
ISSN: 1433-8491
Titre abrégé: Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 9103030

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Feb 2022
Historique:
received: 31 12 2020
accepted: 20 04 2021
pubmed: 28 4 2021
medline: 19 2 2022
entrez: 27 4 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Τhe COVID-19 pandemic has mental health implications for both healthcare workforces and general population, particularly in regions heavily hit by the crisis. Τhe study aimed (i) to investigate anxiety- and depression severity differences between staff of a COVID-19 treatment unit (N = 84) and a hospital without such a unit (N = 55) in comparison to participants of a convenience general population online survey (N = 240) and (ii) to explore relations between such symptoms and hospital staff reaction to COVID-19 in a low COVID-19 burden setting. Anxiety was studied with the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-Item in hospital workforces and with the Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS) in online survey participants. Depression symptoms were assessed with the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 in hospital employees and the HADS in the online survey sample. Symptoms were classified as absent/minimal, borderline abnormal or indicating clinical caseness. Staff reaction to COVID-19 was tapped with a 9-item-questionnaire and the 22-item Impact of Event Scale-revised (IES-R). Proper tests for differences and stepwise ordered logistic regression models were employed. Anxiety- and depression severity was higher in hospital workforces than in online survey participants (P < 0.05). Anxiety was more severe in frontline- compared to backstage employees (P < 0.001) was inversely correlated with age (P = 0.011) and positively with avoidance (P = 0.028). Both anxiety and depression symptoms related to intrusion symptoms (P < 0.001). Regarding the relatively long data collection period, an inverse association between crisis duration and depression symptoms was detected (P = 0.025). These observations point to the urgent need for distress-mitigating interventions for hospital workforces even in low COVID-19 burden settings.

Identifiants

pubmed: 33904979
doi: 10.1007/s00406-021-01262-y
pii: 10.1007/s00406-021-01262-y
pmc: PMC8078092
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

95-105

Informations de copyright

© 2021. Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.

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Auteurs

Panagiotis Alexopoulos (P)

Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Patras University General Hospital, University of Patras, Patras, Greece. panos.alexopoulos@upatras.gr.
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Klinikum Rechts Der Isar, Faculty of Medicine, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany. panos.alexopoulos@upatras.gr.

Dimitrios Roukas (D)

Department of Psychiatry, 417 Army Equity Fund Hospital (NIMTS) Hospital, Athens, Greece.

Apostolos Efkarpidis (A)

Nursing Services Department, General Hospital of Syros "Vardakeio and Proio", Ermoupolis, Greece.

Georgia Konstantopoulou (G)

Special Office for Health Consulting Services and Faculty of Education and Social Work, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Patras, Patras, Greece.

Rigas Soldatos (R)

First Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Eginition Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

Katerina Karaivazoglou (K)

Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Patras University General Hospital, University of Patras, Patras, Greece.

Evagellia Kontogianni (E)

First Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Eginition Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

Konstantinos Assimakopoulos (K)

Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Patras University General Hospital, University of Patras, Patras, Greece.

Theodoros Iliou (T)

Medical Informatics Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece.

Polychronis Εconomou (P)

Department of Civil Engineering (Statistics), University of Patras, Patras, Greece.

Philippos Gourzis (P)

Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Patras University General Hospital, University of Patras, Patras, Greece.

Antonios Politis (A)

First Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Eginition Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, MD, USA.

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