Anxiety About the Risk of Death of Their Patients in Health Professionals in Spain: Analysis at the Peak of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Lázaro Pérez, Cristina; Martínez López, José Ángel; Gómez Galán, José; López Meneses, Eloy

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Anxiety About the Risk of Death of Their Patients in Health Professionals in Spain: Analysis at the Peak of the COVID-19 Pandemic

dc.contributor.author	Lázaro Pérez, Cristina
dc.contributor.author	Martínez López, José Ángel
dc.contributor.author	Gómez Galán, José
dc.contributor.author	López Meneses, Eloy
dc.contributor.department	Sociología
dc.date.accessioned	2020-09-02T11:44:42Z
dc.date.available	2020-09-02T11:44:42Z
dc.date.created	2020-07-19
dc.date.issued	2020-08-15
dc.description.abstract	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.	es
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dc.identifier.doi	10.3390/ijerph17165938
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/95562
dc.language	eng	es
dc.relation	Sin financiación externa a la Universidad	es
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	COVID-19	es
dc.subject	healthcare professionals	es
dc.subject	Anxiety	es
dc.subject	Death	es
dc.subject	Burnout	es
dc.subject.other	CDU::3 - Ciencias sociales::36 - Bienestar y problemas sociales. Trabajo social. Ayuda social. Vivienda. Seguros	es
dc.title	Anxiety About the Risk of Death of Their Patients in Health Professionals in Spain: Analysis at the Peak of the COVID-19 Pandemic	es
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
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