Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Burnout in Healthcare Professionals During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic : a Cross-Sectional Study

© 2021 Ioannis Ilias, Vassiliki Mantziou, Efstratios Vamvakas, Efstathia Kampisiouli, Maria Theodorakopoulou, Chariklia Vrettou, Evangelia Douka, Alice G. Vassiliou, Stylianos Orfanos, Anastasia Kotanidou, Ioanna Dimopoulou, published by Sciendo..

INTRODUCTION: Healthcare professionals who are directly involved in the diagnosis, treatment, and general care of patients with SARS-CoV-2 are at risk of developing adverse psychological reactions. A cross-sectional study of healthcare professionals aimed to determine the impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on the mental health of healthcare professionals in two of the largest referral hospitals in Athens, Greece.

METHODS: The study was conducted in the two largest SARS-CoV-2 referral hospitals in Athens, Greece. An assessment and the interrelationship of post-traumatic stress disorder, using the Impact of Event Scale-Revised [IES-R]) and burnout, using the Maslach Burnout Inventory [MBI]) was carried out.

RESULTS: A total of 162 subjects were enrolled in the study. Fifty-six (35%) had an IES-R score > 33, suggesting post-traumatic stress disorder. Forty-nine (30%) had an MBI score > 27. Seventy-five (46%) had a personal accomplishment score of < 33 and 46 (28%) had a depersonalization score >10. Stepwise backward logistic regression revealed that the only independent variable that was retained regarding the presence of post-traumatic stress disorder was the emotional exhaustion score of the MBI (at a cut-off of 24 in this scale, the 95% CI of the odds ratio for the presence of post-traumatic stress disorder was 1.077-1.173).

CONCLUSIONS: In this sample of first-line Greek healthcare professionals against SARS-CoV-2, most of them were proven to be quite resilient to this challenge. One-third of them had post-traumatic stress disorder, which depended on their degree of emotional exhaustion. Healthcare professionals, as represented by this study, performed their duties without feeling helpless and developing adverse psychological reactions.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:7

Enthalten in:

Journal of critical care medicine (Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie din Targu-Mures) - 7(2021), 1 vom: 26. Jan., Seite 14-20

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ilias, Ioannis [VerfasserIn]
Mantziou, Vassiliki [VerfasserIn]
Vamvakas, Efstratios [VerfasserIn]
Kampisiouli, Efstathia [VerfasserIn]
Theodorakopoulou, Maria [VerfasserIn]
Vrettou, Chariklia [VerfasserIn]
Douka, Evangelia [VerfasserIn]
Vassiliou, Alice G [VerfasserIn]
Orfanos, Stylianos [VerfasserIn]
Kotanidou, Anastasia [VerfasserIn]
Dimopoulou, Ioanna [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
COVID-19
Cardiac injury
Cardiogenic shock
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
Journal Article
Myocarditis
SARS-CoV-2

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Date Revised 27.04.2022

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.2478/jccm-2020-0042

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NLM332611469