Salud mental en trabajadores sanitarios durante la pandemia de COVID-19 en Ecuador

Abstract

Abstract: COVID-19 is a disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus that has induced the death of thousands of people, the collapse of the health system and the risk of alterations in mental health. Health workers have been affected by anxiety, depression and sleeping difficulties. The general objective of the research was to determine the mental health status of health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in a private establishment in the Las Acacias sector in the city of Manta in 2021. An investigation was carried out with a design exploratory, descriptive, quantitative, non-experimental and cross-sectional, surveying 45 professionals with ad hoc sociodemographic questionnaires; MBI-HSS; DASS-21; AAQ-II 7; UCLA-3 and PSQI. Finally, it was found that half of the respondents have high values in the dimensions of burnout and approximately a quarter of the population has severe values of stress, anxiety and depression. Finally, when analyzing the quality of sleep of health personnel, it was found that approximately a quarter of those surveyed had high difficulty sleeping.