¿Seguir o no seguir en el equipo de salud luego de la pandemia?
Objectivos: To evaluate the impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on health workers in terms of leaving the profession. Material and methods: descriptive cross-sectional study, through a self-administered, anonymous, structure survey, built as a Google form, distributed by Whatsapp to health personnel fr...
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| Publicado en: | Revista Médica Universitaria |
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| Acceso en línea: | https://bdigital.uncu.edu.ar/fichas.php?idobjeto=17600 |
| Sumario: | Objectivos: To evaluate the impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on health workers in terms of leaving the profession.
Material and methods: descriptive cross-sectional study, through a self-administered, anonymous, structure survey, built as a Google form, distributed by Whatsapp to health personnel from institutions in Mendoza (Argentina). Statistical analysis Epi Info 7.2, measures of central tendency, chi2 and logistic regression. Significance criterion p<0.05.
Results: 350 responses. Age 39 (20-71) years. Work environment: 30% private, 31% public and 38% both. Permanent staff 47%, contracted 39%, residents/interns 13%. Support staff 14%, staff strictly related to patients 86%. 90% direct face-to-face contact with COVID 19 patients. 83% managed critical patients. 55% lost patients on their charge. Of these, 50% felt responsible. 43% felt alone in patient care. 69% felt supported in making difficult decisions. 79% had action protocols. 89% felt their mental health was affected. Anxiety (64%), insomnia (49%), lack of motivation (51%), irritability (50%), stress (70%) and anguish (58%) predominated. 56% considered leaving the profession. 43% still continue with the idea. 38% used drugs. 27% self.medicated. Logistic regression: independent variables for proposing abandonment of the profession are having felt alone in patient care, responsible for the deaths of patients in their care and having needed psychotropic drugs or others during the pandemic.
Conclusion: In pandemic, the perception of being alone in critical circumstances of professional performance, subjected to a high load of stress, exposed to seeking for help in psychotropic drugs and feeling responsible for the death of the patient, are situations that condition health professionals to consider resigning from professional practice. It is a priority to consider recommendations such as those of the WHO, which are based on identifying tools to manage stress.
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