Common mental disorders and associated factors in nursing workers in COVID-19 units.
Rev Esc Enferm USP
; 56: e20220059, 2022.
Article
in English, Portuguese
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1987240
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To analyze the interfaces between mental illness, based on common mental disorder screening, and sociodemographic, health and life habits aspects of nursing workers at COVID-19 units.METHOD:
A mixed methods study, carried out with 327 nursing workers from COVID-19 units of seven public and philanthropic, medium and large hospitals in Brazil. The collection included a socio-employment, health and lifestyle questionnaire, the Self-Reporting Questionnaire, and interviews. chi-square and Fisher's exact tests were applied to quantitative data and thematic content analysis, with the help of NVivo in the qualitative ones.RESULTS:
Common mental disorders were screened in 35.5% of the sample and were associated with female sex (p = 0.004), age up to 40 years (p = 0.003), nurse (p = 0.014), reporting previous illness (p = 0.003), using psychoactive drugs (p < 0.001), medication that was not used before the pandemic (p < 0.001) and reporting poor sleep/eating quality (p < 0.001). The impacts of the pandemic on social and family life presented interfaces with mental illness.CONCLUSION:
The presence of psychological illness is suggested, possibly associated with the repercussions of the pandemic on work and personal life.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
COVID-19
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Mental Disorders
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Qualitative research
Limits:
Female
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Humans
Language:
English
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Portuguese
Journal:
Rev Esc Enferm USP
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
1980-220X-REEUSP-2022-0059en
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