{"id":1486,"date":"2021-12-22T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/?p=1486"},"modified":"2023-03-28T13:12:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T16:12:27","slug":"psychological-impact-of-covid-19-on-health-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/2021\/12\/22\/psychological-impact-of-covid-19-on-health-professionals\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychological impact of COVID-19 on health professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liliana Sousa, Specialist Nurse, Emergency Department of the Centro Hospitalar e Universit\u00e1rio de Coimbra, Portugal.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Eduardo Santos, Adjunct Professor, Escola Superior de Sa\u00fade do Instituto Polit\u00e9cnico de Viseu, Portugal. Core Staff of the Portugal Centre for Evidence Based Practice: a JBI Centre of Excellence. Integrated Researcher at the Health Sciences Research Unit: Nursing, Nursing School of Coimbra, Portugal.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Madalena Cunha, Coordinating Professor at the Escola Superior de Sa\u00fade do Instituto Polit\u00e9cnico de Viseu, Portugal. Integrated Researcher at the Health Sciences Research Unit: Nursing, Nursing School of Coimbra, Portugal.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"In view of the profusion of studies on the prevalence of psychological and mental health outcomes of health professionals who treat COVID-19 patients, researchers from the Health Sciences Research Unit: Nursing and nurses from the Centro Hospitalar e Universit\u00e1rio de Coimbra synthesized these results by conducting a systematic review of prevalence with meta-analysis.<\/p>\n

For this purpose, the article published in the journal Acta Paulista de Enfermagem and entitled \u201cThe psychological impact of COVID-19 on health professionals: systematic review of prevalence\u201d studied the psychological impacts suffered by health professionals directly involved with COVID-19 patients.<\/p>\n

In the study search, 38,657 records were identified. After the reading and careful selection through a systematic process, only five studies were included. The statistical analysis (meta-analysis) of the findings allowed the conclusion that the COVID-19 pandemic has a very significant psychological impact on health professionals with important prevalence of depression (27.5%), anxiety (26.8%), insomnia (35.8%) and stress (51.9%). Additionally, in three of the studies included, health professionals reported equally important levels of vicarious trauma, post-traumatic stress, somatization, and obsessive-compulsive symptoms.<\/p>\n

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We have recently followed health professionals\u2019 reports in the media that portray this problem, expressing their individual concern and in particular, reinforcing that \u201cfrontline\u201d health professionals are a particularly vulnerable population and deserve special attention\/intervention.<\/p>\n

The study is important because it systematized in prevalence, so far \u201chidden\u201d, the various symptoms of psychological impacts, from which the possibility of implementing strategies to minimize their occurrence is shown.<\/p>\n

The study results bring new challenges, since the implementation of psychological interventions must be made widely available and proactively promoted as a means of protecting this essential workforce, thereby ensuring that they can continue to meet the strenuous demands imposed on them for the benefit of public health.<\/p>\n

This study was financed by National Funds through the FCT \u2013 Funda\u00e7\u00e3o para a Ci\u00eancia e a Tecnologia, I.P., under project INVEST Ref\u00aa: fab8899e-5c94-4c33-9807-f54cdc93b053 and project Ref\u00aa UIDB\/00742\/2020. The authors were supported by the Health Sciences Research Unit: Nursing and the Instituto Polit\u00e9cnico de Viseu.<\/p>\n

External Link(s)<\/h3>\n

Acta Paulista de Enfermagem –\u00a0 APE: https:\/\/www.scielo.br\/ape<\/a><\/p>\n

To read the article, access<\/h3>\n

SOUSA, L.,\u00a0et al<\/em>. Impacto psicol\u00f3gico da COVID-19 nos profissionais de sa\u00fade: revis\u00e3o sistem\u00e1tica de preval\u00eancia. Acta Paulista de Enfermagem<\/em> [online]. 2021, v. 34,\u00a0eAPE003775 [viewed 15 December 2021]. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.37689\/acta-ape\/2021AR03775<\/a>. Available from: https:\/\/www.scielo.br\/j\/ape\/a\/xN45K97vHkRN6yB7MSSdsXm\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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