Acute stress of the healthcare workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic evolution: a cross-sectional study in Spain.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine the volume of health professionals who suffered distress due to their care of patients with COVID-19 and to analyse the direction in which the response capacity of the professionals to face future waves of COVID-19 is evolving.

Design

A cross-sectional study.

Setting

Primary care and hospitals in Spain.

Participants

A non-randomised sample of 685 professionals (physicians, nurses and other health staff).

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Frequency and intensity of stress responses measured by the Acute Stress of Health Professionals Caring COVID-19 Scale (EASE). Variation of stress responses according to the number of deaths per day per territory and the evolutionary stage of the COVID-19 outbreak measured by the Kruskal-Wall

SUBMITTER: Mira JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7650075 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature