Characteristics of stress perception and coping among healthcare facility workers at different stages of the COVID-19 pandemic

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Objective. To assess the characteristics of stress perception and response in healthcare facility workers at different stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Subjects and methods. An online survey of healthcare workers was conducted using the Perceived Stress Scale-10 (PSS-10), the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), and the Subjective Asthenia Rating Scale.

Results. The investigators identified a significant number of workers with non-constructive perception and response to stress factors during the pandemic. Female workers having up to five years’ work experience, who provided assistance to patients with coronavirus infection and/or had experienced this disease, were burnout risk groups. The severity of affective disorders and asthenic manifestations was higher in COVID-19 convalescent healthcare workers than in healthy individuals.

Conclusion. The investigation has yielded real-time data on the psychoemotional status of healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic and identified potential risk groups in developing burnout syndrome, which primarily require professional psychological assistance.

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Tatiana A. Platonova

European Medical Center “UMMC-Health”; Ural State Medical University, Ministry of Health of Russia

Author for correspondence.
Email: fill.1990@inbox.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5441-854X

Cand. Med. Sci., Head, Department of Epidemiology; Epidemiologist, European Medical Center «UMMC-Health»; Assistant, Department of Epidemiology, Social Hygiene and Organization of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service, Ural State Medical University

Russian Federation, Yekaterinburg; Yekaterinburg

Alla A. Golubkova

Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-Being; Russian Medical Academy of Continuing Professional Education, Ministry of Health of Russia

Email: allagolubkova@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4812-2165

MD, Leading Researcher, Laboratory of Healthcare-Associated Infections, Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-Being; Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Russian Medical Academy of Continuing Professional Education, Ministry of Health of Russia

Russian Federation, Moscow; Moscow

Mikhail S. Sklyar

European Medical Center “UMMC-Health”

Email: info@ugmk-clinic.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1692-522X

MD, Director General

Russian Federation, Yekaterinburg

Elena V. Dyachenko

Ural State Medical University, Ministry of Health of Russia

Email: al-dyachenko@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2221-5614

Cand. Psych. Sci., Associate Professor, Head, Competence Center

Russian Federation, Yekaterinburg

Kira V. Shakhova

European Medical Center “UMMC-Health”

Email: LytovaKV@ugmk-clinic.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7929-8599

HR Director

Russian Federation, Yekaterinburg

Mikhail S. Rozhkov

Ural Federal University named after the First President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin

Email: vashevsio@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9542-6917

Laboratory Researcher, Human Cognitive Behavioral Research Laboratory

Russian Federation, Yekaterinburg

Tatiana R. Tomenko

European Medical Center “UMMC-Health”; Ural State Medical University, Ministry of Health of Russia; Ural Federal University named after the First President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin

Email: TomenkoTR@ugmk-clinic.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0652-1996

Cand. Med. Sci., Head, Center for Brain Dysfunctions and Epilepsy, European Medical Center «UMMC-Health»; Head, Human Cognitive Behavioral Research Laboratory, Ural Federal University named after the First President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg, Russia; Assistant Lecturer, Department of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Medical Genetics, Ural State Medical University

Russian Federation, Yekaterinburg; Yekaterinburg; Yekaterinburg

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