Changes in healthcare workers’ anxiety during two time points of the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from a longitudinal study (Version 1)

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Evidence on the within-person changes of healthcare workers’ mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic is absent. This study aimed to examine the within-person changes of anxiety in Argentinean healthcare workers during this pandemic, adjusting for main demographic factors, region, mental disorder...

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Autores principales: López Steinmetz, Lorena Cecilia, Herrera, Carla Romina, Fong, Shao Bing, Godoy, Juan Carlos
Formato: preprint
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Research Square Company 2021
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Covid 19
Health personnel
Uncertainty
Infections
Coronavirus
Mental Disorders
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-125888/v1
http://hdl.handle.net/11086/20078
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-125888/v1
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Health personnel
Uncertainty
Infections
Coronavirus
Mental Disorders
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Health personnel
Uncertainty
Infections
Coronavirus
Mental Disorders
López Steinmetz, Lorena Cecilia
Herrera, Carla Romina
Fong, Shao Bing
Godoy, Juan Carlos
Changes in healthcare workers’ anxiety during two time points of the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from a longitudinal study (Version 1)
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Uncertainty
Infections
Coronavirus
Mental Disorders
description Evidence on the within-person changes of healthcare workers’ mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic is absent. This study aimed to examine the within-person changes of anxiety in Argentinean healthcare workers during this pandemic, adjusting for main demographic factors, region, mental disorder history, and COVID-19 contagion. A longitudinal web survey (N = 305) was conducted during two time points of the pandemic, one of which was an infection peak. Anxiety significantly increased across time. However, there were significant interaction effects modulating anxiety levels. The largest anxiety increases occurred in healthcare workers who were wondering if they had contracted COVID-19 while symptomatic. Irrespective of the time point, anxiety was the highest in healthcare workers from a region inside the country who were wondering if they had contracted COVID-19, either asymptomatic or symptomatic. An interaction effect between the mental disorder history and the COVID-19 contagion suggested that the anxiety outcomes were mainly due to the concern about the COVID-19 contagion, rather than due to pre-existing mental health vulnerabilities. An increasing anxiety outcome may be expected among healthcare workers as the pandemic progresses. The uncertainty regarding COVID-19 contagion is a preventable and modifiable interacting factor to produce the worst anxiety outcomes among healthcare workers.
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author López Steinmetz, Lorena Cecilia
Herrera, Carla Romina
Fong, Shao Bing
Godoy, Juan Carlos
author_facet López Steinmetz, Lorena Cecilia
Herrera, Carla Romina
Fong, Shao Bing
Godoy, Juan Carlos
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title Changes in healthcare workers’ anxiety during two time points of the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from a longitudinal study (Version 1)
title_short Changes in healthcare workers’ anxiety during two time points of the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from a longitudinal study (Version 1)
title_full Changes in healthcare workers’ anxiety during two time points of the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from a longitudinal study (Version 1)
title_fullStr Changes in healthcare workers’ anxiety during two time points of the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from a longitudinal study (Version 1)
title_full_unstemmed Changes in healthcare workers’ anxiety during two time points of the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from a longitudinal study (Version 1)
title_sort changes in healthcare workers’ anxiety during two time points of the covid-19 pandemic: evidence from a longitudinal study (version 1)
publisher Research Square Company
publishDate 2021
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