Salud mental en trabajadores sanitarios durante la pandemia de COVID-19 en el norte de la ciudad de Riobamba provincia de Chimborazo en el año 2022

Abstract

Abstract: The COVID 19 pandemic brought with it countless changes in the life of the population and especially in health personnel, since they were the ones who They were on the front line during the emergency. Ecuador was no exception, due because there was a rapid increase in cases and deaths, this caused changes in health especially in mental health personnel who were on the front line. In this context, the objective of the research was to determine the state of mental health in healthcare workers during the COVID 19 pandemic in the north of the city from Riobamba province of Chimborazo. For this, the research design was descriptive, cross-sectional and quantitative, the instruments, burnout (MBI), depression, anxiety and stress (DASS 21), psychological inflexibility and perception of loneliness (AAQ 7 and UCLA-20), and Pittsburgh quality of sleep, applied to 43 health workers, being a non-probabilistic experimental accessibility sample. The results reflected percentages lower than 20% of difficulties regarding mental health related to stress, anxiety and depression.