Salud mental en trabajadores sanitarios durante la pandemia de COVID-19 en Ecuador

Abstract

Abstract: Since the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health has suffered a sharp decline at the global level. worldwide, with health workers being one of the most affected groups who are They were forced to face a new virus of which they knew nothing and without counting on the sufficient resources and/or materials. Thus, it has become imperative to determine the Mental health status of healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in the urban sector of district 07D03 Atahualpa-Portovelo-Zaruma during the year 2021. For For this, a non-experimental, cross-sectional, exploratory research design was applied, descriptive and quantitative that allowed to determine the sociodemographic characteristics and labor and mental health status of health workers during the pandemic. He study was carried out based on a sample of 46 health workers in order to identify the mental health of the toilets in the aforementioned district, exposing the presence low personal fulfillment at work and moderate levels of anxiety that negatively affect the mental health of health personnel.