Salud mental en trabajadores sanitarios durante la pandemia de COVID 19 en los sectores centro y sur de la provincia de Loja en el año 2022-2023

Abstract

Abstract:The Covid 19 pandemic generated effects on the mental health of health personnel in first line, those who present symptoms of depressive disorders of exhaustion psychosocial and physiological. This research is characterized by being non-experimental, cross-sectional, exploratory, descriptive and quantitative; and aims to determine the status of the mental health of health workers during the COVID 19 pandemic in the central and southern sectors of the province of Loja, health institutions of the cantons Celica, Pindal and Puyango. For data collection, a survey was applied to 43 workers. made up of instruments such as: the ad hoc sociodemographic questionnaire, Chronic Work Stress Inventory (MBI-HSS), Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scales (DASS - 21), the acceptance and action questionnaire (AAQ - II) 7; the Loneliness scale (UCLA 3) and the sleep quality index (PSQI). Therefore, it is evident that the health personnel, in a large part of the variables evaluated, it is at stable levels due to the mild levels of stress and depression that present in the results obtained.