Title
At the height of the storm: Healthcare staff's health conditions and job satisfaction and their associated predictors during the epidemic peak of COVID-19
Date Issued
01 July 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
letter
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Academic Press Inc.
Abstract
This study reports the physical health, mental health, anxiety, depression, distress, and job satisfaction of healthcare staff in Iran when the country faced its highest number of total active COVID-19 cases. In a sample of 304 healthcare staff (doctors, nurses, radiologists, technicians, etc.), we found a sizable portion reached the cutoff levels of disorders in anxiety (28.0%), depression (30.6%), and distress (20.1%). Age, gender, education, access to PPE (personal protective equipment), healthcare institutions (public vs. private), and individual status of COVID-19 infection each predicted some but not all the outcome variables of SF-12, PHQ-4, K6, and job satisfaction. The healthcare workers varied greatly in their access to PPE and in their status of COVID-19 infection: negative (69.7%), unsure (28.0%), and positive (2.3%). The predictors were also different from those identified in previous studies of healthcare staff during the COVID-19 crisis in China. This study helps to identify the healthcare staff in need to enable more targeted help as healthcare staff in many countries are facing peaks in their COVID-19 cases.
Start page
144
End page
146
Volume
87
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Salud pública, Salud ambiental
Epidemiología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85084617206
PubMed ID
Source
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity
ISSN of the container
08891591
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus