Psychological distress among healthcare workers accessing occupational health services during the COVID-19 pandemic in Zimbabwe.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Healthcare workers (HCWs) have experienced anxiety and psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic. We established and report findings from an occupational health programme for HCWs in Zimbabwe that offered screening for SARS-CoV-2 with integrated screening for comorbidities including common mental disorder (CMD) and referral for counselling.

Methods

Quantitative outcomes were fearfulness about COVID-19, the Shona Symptom Questionnaire (SSQ-14) score (cutpoint 8/14) and the number and proportion of HCWs offered referral for counselling, accepting referral and counselled. We used chi square tests to identify factors associated with fearfulness, and logistic regression was used to model the association of fearfulness with wave, adjusting for variables identi

SUBMITTER: Chingono RMS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9055394 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature