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Castillo, M., Loaiza, G., Tuesta, F. (2023). Salud mental de los médicos residentes de un hospital de Lima Metropolitana tras el levantamiento del estado de emergencia sanitaria por la pandemia COVID 19 [Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/13214
Castillo, M., Loaiza, G., Tuesta, F. Salud mental de los médicos residentes de un hospital de Lima Metropolitana tras el levantamiento del estado de emergencia sanitaria por la pandemia COVID 19 []. PE: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia; 2023. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/13214
@misc{renati/910626,
title = "Salud mental de los médicos residentes de un hospital de Lima Metropolitana tras el levantamiento del estado de emergencia sanitaria por la pandemia COVID 19",
author = "Tuesta Garcia, Franz Alexander",
publisher = "Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia",
year = "2023"
}
Background: The mental health in the population varies according to the social context, this is not different in health personnel; we are now in the middle of COVID-19 Pandemic, and this has a negative impact in the mental health of health personnel and the general population. Objective: Describe the mental health among residents in a public hospital after the end of the public health emergency of COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive correlational study. We include 216 medical residents that had care work after the end of the public health emergency of a total of 615 residents. The GAD-7, PHQ-9 questionnaires and the IES-R scale were utilized to address anxiety, depression and distress respectively. Results: Regarding prevalence of mental health symptoms, it was found that 50.9% of interviewed residents had anxiety symptoms, 50.9% had depression symptoms and 70.4% suffer from distress symptoms. Moreover, 43.5% presented mild, 5.6% moderate and 1.9% severe anxiety; on the other hand, 33.3% presented mild depression and 17.6% between moderate and severe, while 38.0% presented partial PTSD, 25.9% with a probable diagnosis of PTSD and only 6.5% with severe PTSD symptomatology. Conclusions: A high prevalence of anxiety, depression and distress symptoms were found between medical residents. This matches with other revised studies. To conclude, no statistical significant relation was found between the presence of mental health disorder symptoms or their levels and the sociodemographic characteristics of medical residents.
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