Psychological state of medical staff throughout the COVID-19 pandemic

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OBJECTIVE

To assess the psychological state including anxiety, depression, and mental burnout in medical staff who works with new COVID-19 infection.

MATERIAL AND METHODS

An anonymous research was conducted in Moscow COVID-19 departments in June 2020. The study included 470 respondents who work with COVID-19 infection including 323 physicians and 147 nurses. Physicians included 274 anesthesiologists and intensive care specialists and 49 doctors of other specialties. We have used the following scales: Beck Depression Inventory, Maslach Burnout Inventory scale (MBI) for physicians adapted by N.E. Vodopyanova (emotional exhaustion (EE), depersonalization (DP), reduction of professional achievements (PA)), State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), Beck Hopelessness Inventory for assessment of negative attitude to subjective future. Additional questions: subjective assessment of fatigue throughout a week, subjective assessment of efficiency, somatic complaints over the past month. R-Studio software (Version 1.0.153 2009-2017) was used for statistical analysis.

RESULTS

Depression was observed in 67.8% of physicians and 59.18% of nurses, negative attitude to subjective future — in 67.8% of physicians and 37.41% of nurses. According to MBI data, high EE score was noted in 59.13% of physicians, DP score — in 21.67%, PA score — in 43.03% of doctors. High burnout scores in all three sub-scales were observed in 18.89% of physicians and 8.16% of nurses.

CONCLUSION

Analysis of psychological state and regular psychological testing are essential in COVID-19 departments. This step will be first one towards reducing the negative impact of depression, anxiety, burnout on mental health.

Keywords:

COVID-19

coronavirus

depression

anxiety

hopelessness

burnout

Authors:

Sinbukhova E.V.

Burdenko Neurosurgical Center

SPIN RSCI: 6083-2823
Scopus AuthorID: 57194756725
ResearcherID: N-2256-2017
ORCID: 0000-0003-3665-9416

Protsenko D.N.

«Kommunarka» Moscow Multidisciplinary Clinical Center of the Moscow City Healthcare Department;
N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia

SPIN RSCI: 1019-8216
Scopus AuthorID: 6603277055
ResearcherID: P-9224-2018
ORCID: 0000-0002-5166-3280

Received:

22.07.2020

Accepted:

10.09.2020

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