Salud mental en trabajadores sanitarios durante la pandemia de COVID-19 en el sector noreste de la ciudad de Cuenca durante el año 2022

Abstract

Abstract:This project analyzes the main effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in relation to with the mental health of health personnel in Ecuador, whose applied approaches are: no experimental, cross-sectional, exploratory, descriptive and quantitative, being the main objective determine the mental health status of health workers during the pandemic COVID-19 in the Northeast sector of the city of Cuenca during the year 2022, for this they collected 49 samples of which 40 were processed, with an equitable participation of men and women, through the application of the following instruments: questionnaire Ad-Hoc, Maslach Chronic Job Stress (MBI), DASS-21 Mental Health Questionnaire, AAQ-2 inventory, UCLA-3, AUDIT and the Pittsburgh sleep quality questionnaire, said instruments, conclude that health personnel maintain low levels of work stress, referring to mental health in three dimensions: depression, anxiety and stress, whose relevance is at light levels, most of the participants maintain flexibility psychological in the face of adverse events, referring to not feeling alone and presenting medium difficulty for sleeping.