Salud mental en trabajadores sanitarios durante la pandemia de COVID-19 en un centro de salud de la ciudad de Guayaquil durante el 2022

Abstract

Abstract: The pandemic caused by COVID-19 has affected the entire population in relation to physical and psychological health, specifically health workers, showing prevalence of anxiety, depression, stress, burnout, sleep disturbances, due to their frontline work against the virus. Therefore, the objective is to determine the mental health status of health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in a health center in the city of Guayaquil during the year 2022. The methodology used was a non-experimental, cross-sectional, descriptive and quantitative research design, with an evaluated sample of 40 health professionals. Instruments such as (MBI-HSS), which evaluates the three dimensions of burnout syndrome; (DASS-21) which evaluates the levels of depression, anxiety and stress; (AAQ-II) which evaluates psychological inflexibility; (UCLA-3) which evaluates the perception of loneliness and (PSQI) which evaluates the quality of sleep were applied. It was found that the majority of the evaluated sample presented a low level of self-actualization.