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Intern Med J ; 51(9): 1407-1413, 2021 09.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34346147

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BACKGROUND: In early 2020, the impending COVID-19 pandemic placed a once-in-a-generation professional and personal challenge on healthcare workers. Publications on direct physical disease abound. The authors wanted to focus on doctors' psychological well-being. AIMS: To assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on doctors' well-being and evaluate their concerns as the pandemic progressed. METHODS: A mixed-methods, hospital-based survey was sent to doctors at the 650-bed tertiary referral hospital in NSW at two different periods (late-March and early May 2020). A validated mental well-being tool (Short Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (SWEMWBS)) was combined with COVID-19-specific questions. RESULTS: Two hundred and thirty-five responses were obtained from 450 doctors, with a response rate of 32% in the first survey and 20% in the second. The majority (35%) of respondents were doctors-in-training, followed by staff-specialists (23%). The highest response was from frontline workers in both surveys, including the intensive care unit (27%), anaesthesia (21%) and emergency department (13%). 'Extreme concern' regarding personal protective equipment (PPE) shortage dropped from 22.6% to 2.2% and 'extreme concern' of contracting COVID-19 fell from 22.6% to 3.4% in the second survey. The proportion of respondents with a 'low' psychological well-being score improved from 38% to 27% between the two surveys. The resulting mean improvement in the SWEMWBS was 3.49 (95% confidence interval = 3.06-3.91, P < 0.001). CONCLUSION: Both COVID-19 specific concerns and psychological well-being improved greatly in the second survey. Possible explanations are the fall in COVID-19 cases in the district, improvements in PPE supply and supportive measures communicated to doctors during this period.


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COVID-19 , Pandemias , Personal de Salud , Humanos , Nueva Gales del Sur/epidemiología , SARS-CoV-2 , Centros de Atención Terciaria
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