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Changes in Hospital Staff’ Mental Health During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Longitudinal Results From the International Cope-Corona Study Publisher Pubmed



Lanzara R1 ; Conti C1 ; Rosa I1 ; Pawlowski T2 ; Malecka M2 ; Rymaszewska J2 ; Porcelli P1 ; Stein B3 ; Waller C3 ; Muller MM3 ; Bailles E4, 5 ; Blanch J6 ; Canizares S6 ; Cervera Teluel M7 Show All Authors
Authors
  1. Lanzara R1
  2. Conti C1
  3. Rosa I1
  4. Pawlowski T2
  5. Malecka M2
  6. Rymaszewska J2
  7. Porcelli P1
  8. Stein B3
  9. Waller C3
  10. Muller MM3
  11. Bailles E4, 5
  12. Blanch J6
  13. Canizares S6
  14. Cervera Teluel M7
  15. Dunne PJ8
  16. Fadgyas Stanculete M9
  17. Farre JM7
  18. Font E6
  19. Forner Puntonet M4
  20. Fritzsche K10
  21. Gayan E7
  22. Huang M11
  23. Ibanez Jimenez P4
  24. Konig S12
  25. Kundinger N12
  26. Lobo A13
  27. Nejatisafa AA14
  28. Obach A6
  29. Offiah G8
  30. Parramon G4
  31. Peri JM6
  32. Ramos Quiroga JA4
  33. Rousaud A6
  34. Schuster S12
  35. Szczesniak D2
  36. Torres Mata X6
  37. Xiong N15

Source: PLoS ONE Published:2023


Abstract

This longitudinal study aimed to explore anxiety and depressive symptoms, individual resources, and job demands in a multi-country sample of 612 healthcare workers (HCWs) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Two online surveys were distributed to HCWs in seven countries (Germany, Andorra, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Romania, Iran) during the first (May-October 2020, T1) and the second (February-April 2021, T2) phase of the pandemic, assessing sociodemographic characteristics, contact with COVID-19 patients, anxiety and depressive symptoms, self-compassion, sense of coherence, social support, risk perception, and health and safety at the workplace. HCWs reported a significant increase in depressive and anxiety symptoms. HCWs with high depressive or anxiety symptoms at T1 and T2 reported a history of mental illness and lower self-compassion and sense of coherence over time. Risk perception, self-compassion, sense of coherence, and social support were strong independent predictors of depressive and anxiety symptoms at T2, even after controlling for baseline depressive or anxiety symptoms and sociodemographic variables. These findings pointed out that HCWs during the COVID-19 outbreak experienced a high burden of psychological distress. The mental health and resilience of HCWs should be supported during disease outbreaks by instituting workplace interventions for psychological support. Copyright: © 2023 Lanzara et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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