Fear of the unknown: Experience of frontline healthcare workers with coping strategies used to face the COVID 19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT: The COVID 19 pandemic presented various challenges among health care workers, one of them being the impact it has on mental health. The psychological problems such as anxiety, depression, insomnia and stress, all consequences of the pandemic cause psychopathological outcomes reverberating negatively on the emotional well-being of health care workers. This study aimed to explore the experience of frontline healthcare workers (HCWs) during the COVID-19 pandemic in a middle-income country in Latin America and to identify the coping mechanisms they used to face stressful situations during this time. A qualitative study based on an interpretative paradigm was conducted allowing to examine complex, ambiguous and emotionally loaded topics to explore in detail the experience of frontline HCWs duri

SUBMITTER: Arango-Martinez G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11326562 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature