Salud mental en trabajadores sanitarios durante la pandemia de COVID 19 del sector Norte de Quito en el año 2022

Abstract

Abstract: The objective of this work was to determine the mental health status of health workers during the COVID 19 pandemic in the northern sector of the city of Quito during the year 2021. The medical and nursing personnel who work were taken as a study sample. in public and private entities in the northern sector of Quito. The applied instruments were an ad-hoc questionnaire to measure sociodemographic data, Maslach's chronic work stress inventory (MBI), DASS-21 mental health questionnaire, AAQ-7 inventory, UCLA-3 and Pittsburgh sleep quality questionnaire. Low indicators of alterations in the mental health of these workers were found, although 7.5% of the sample presented low personal fulfillment and medium difficulty sleeping and 20% moderate anxiety.