Health professionals’ mental health during the COVID-19pandemic: A study in virtual communities
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1806-6976.smad.2024.215845Keywords:
Health Personnel, COVID-19, Mental Health, Pandemics, Social MediaAbstract
Objective: to assess health professionals’ mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methodology: a cross-sectional study conducted with 112 health professionals participating
in two virtual communities aimed at health workers. The Self-Report Questionnaire instrument
was used. Association and multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed. Results:
the mean age was 35.15 years old, with most of the respondents being female, without a partner,
and living in the Brazilian Northeast region. The prevalence of mental distress was 33%. In the
inferential analyses, mental distress presented associations with age, with each one-year-old
increase in age related to a reduction of nearly 8% in the chances of manifesting mental distress.
Conclusion: there are indicators of mental distress and an association with age, evidenced among
health professionals, which shows the need for strategies that serve as protective resources and
promoters of mental health for this work group.
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