Associations between the working experiences at frontline of COVID-19 pandemic and mental health of Korean public health doctors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Demographic, work environmental, and psychosocial features are associated with mental health of healthcare professionals at pandemic frontline. The current study aimed to find predictors of mental health for public health doctors from working experiences at frontline of COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods

With first-come and first-served manner, 350 public health doctors with experiences of work at COVID-19 frontline participated online survey on August 2020. Mental health was defined using the total scores of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9, the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7, the Perceived Stress Scale, and the Stanford Presenteeism Scale-6. Multivariate logistic regression models of mental health with lowest Akaike Information Criterion were determined among all comb

SUBMITTER: Han S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8188159 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature