Salud mental en trabajadores sanitarios durante la pandemia de COVID 19 en el sector centro de Cuenca -Ecuador

Abstract

Abstract: The mental health of medical personnel is important since, without them, the Covid-19 health crisis would not have been manageable. In addition, due to the hustle and bustle of the pandemic, the health personnel were overly demanding at work, since they attended to many cases in a single day. This led to work stress appearing, causing physical and psychological health problems. Therefore, the objective of this research was to determine the state of mental health of health workers during the COVID 19 pandemic in the downtown sector of the city of Cuenca during the year 2021. In its methodological part, it was carried out with a quantitative approach, A sample of 40 health professionals consisting of doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists and nursing assistants was used. The instruments used were the Ad Hoc, MBI-HSS, DASS-21, AAQ-II, UCLA-3 and the sleep quality index. The results of the investigation were that the health personnel during the pandemic had burnout syndrome; 48.9% of those surveyed reported having low emotional exhaustion. While in the mental health section, 84.4% of those surveyed reported having had mild stress; 66.7% mild anxiety and 71.1% mild depression, in addition to low difficulty sleeping. Therefore, the mental health of health personnel in the city of Cuenca was affected at slight levels during the covid-19 pandemic.