Publication: Anxiety About the Risk of Death of Their Patients in Health Professionals in Spain: Analysis at the Peak of the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Lázaro Pérez, Cristina ; Martínez López, José Ángel ; Gómez Galán, José ; López Meneses, Eloy
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10.3390/ijerph17165938
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The COVID-19 health crisis has had a global e ect, but the consequences in the di erent
countries a ected have been very di erent. In Spain, in a short period of time, health professionals
went from a situation of stability to living with a working environment characterized by overcrowded
hospitals, lack of individual protection equipment, non-existent or contradictory work protocols,
as well as an unknown increase in mortality. Although in their professional activity health workers
are closely linked to death processes, in recent months, working conditions and health emergencies
have drawn an unheard of working scenario, with the stress and anxiety they may su er when
faced with the death of their patients. The present quantitative research was carried out in di erent
hospitals in Spain on health professionals during the month of April 2020. Through the subscale of
anxiety in the face of the death of others, developed by Collett–Lester, it has been verified that health
professionals have had to develop their work in a context of precariousness, putting at risk both their
individual and collective health, notably increasing anxiety in the face of the death of their patients.
The predictive variables of this anxiety have been the absence of individual protection equipment,
as well as high levels in the burnout subscales of emotional exhaustion and depersonalization.
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