Salud mental en trabajadores sanitarios durante la pandemia de COVID-19 en Ecuador, provincia de Tungurahua, cantón Ambato durante el año 2021

Abstract

Abstract: The global expansion of COVID-19 brought with it rigid consequences both physically and mentally, especially in health workers, since they were the professionals most vulnerable to contagion for having worked on the front line with everyone. patients who contracted this virus.The first case of COVID-19 registered in Ecuador was confirmed on February 29, 2020, the infected person was a 71-year-old woman who arrived in the country from Madrid-Spain, the same one who arrived in Ecuador on February 14 without presenting no symptom. For March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO), declared a global pandemic by COVID-19,The present investigation determines mental health as a problem in health personnel in Ecuador, province of Tungurahua, city of Ambato in the year 2020-2021, with 37 participants as a sample. The research design is characterized by being: non-experimental, cross-sectional, exploratory, descriptive and quantitative. The questionnaires were applied to the participants: DASS-21, AAQ-II, UCLA-3, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Questionnaire. These results do not present high or detrimental indices in the mental health of health personnel.As a result of this research, the dimensions studied regarding burnout, perception of mental health, perception of loneliness and quality of sleep in health personnel obtained low levels, however in the dimension of psychological inflexibility health workers obtained high levels, since that the sudden and abrupt change due to the pandemic in the daily and working life of health personnel forced them to face a different reality for which they were not prepared.