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

Evidence on the within-person changes of healthcare workers’ mental health across waves of COVID-19 cases during this pandemic is absent. The aim of this study is to examine the within-person changes of anxiety in Argentinean healthcare workers, adjusting for main demographic factors, region of resi...

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Autores principales: López Steinmetz, Lorena Cecilia, Herrera, Carla Romina, Fong, Shao Bing, Godoy, Juan Carlos
Formato: article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2021
Materias:
Covid 19
Health personnel
Uncertainty
Infections
Coronavirus
Mental disorders
Developing countries
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-021-00667-z
http://hdl.handle.net/11086/21997
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11469-021-00667-z
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topic Covid 19
Health personnel
Uncertainty
Infections
Coronavirus
Mental disorders
Developing countries
spellingShingle Covid 19
Health personnel
Uncertainty
Infections
Coronavirus
Mental disorders
Developing countries
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
topic_facet Covid 19
Health personnel
Uncertainty
Infections
Coronavirus
Mental disorders
Developing countries
description Evidence on the within-person changes of healthcare workers’ mental health across waves of COVID-19 cases during this pandemic is absent. The aim of this study is to examine the within-person changes of anxiety in Argentinean healthcare workers, adjusting for main demographic factors, region of residence, mental disorder history, and COVID-19 contagion, during the COVID-19 pandemic. A longitudinal web survey (N=305) was conducted during two time points of the pandemic, one of which was an infection peak. Anxiety signifcantly increased across time. However, there were signifcant interaction efects modulating anxiety levels. The largest anxiety increases occurred in healthcare workers who were not sure 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 not sure if they had contracted COVID-19, either asymptomatic or symptomatic. An interaction efect 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. Regardless of the starting point in anxiety levels, an increasing anxiety outcome may be expected among healthcare workers as the pandemic progresses. The uncertainty regarding COVID-19 contagion is a preventable and modifable 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
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Herrera, Carla Romina
Fong, Shao Bing
Godoy, Juan Carlos
author_sort López Steinmetz, Lorena Cecilia
title Changes in healthcare workers’ anxiety during two time points of the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from a longitudinal study
title_short Changes in healthcare workers’ anxiety during two time points of the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from a longitudinal study
title_full Changes in healthcare workers’ anxiety during two time points of the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from a longitudinal study
title_fullStr Changes in healthcare workers’ anxiety during two time points of the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from a longitudinal study
title_full_unstemmed Changes in healthcare workers’ anxiety during two time points of the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from a longitudinal study
title_sort changes in healthcare workers’ anxiety during two time points of the covid-19 pandemic: evidence from a longitudinal study
publishDate 2021
url https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-021-00667-z
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