COVID-19-related discrimination, PTSD symptoms, and psychological distress in healthcare workers.

ABSTRACT: To date, little effort has been made to examine if frontline workers who deal with COVID-19 patients are more likely to experience discrimination than second-line workers. Also, little information has appeared on how COVID-19-related discrimination affects PTSD symptoms in healthcare workers. We aimed to examine the association between COVID-19-related discrimination and frontline worker status. We further aimed to examine how COVID-19-related discrimination was associated with PTSD symptoms and psychological distress. We studied 647 healthcare workers. For the association between COVID-19-related discrimination and frontline worker status, we conducted multivariable logistic regression adjusting for age, sex and living alone. For the association of COVID-19-related discrimination with PTS

SUBMITTER: Narita Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9538840 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature