Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34454527›Full record

ArticleHealth and quality of life outcomes2021

Anxiety, trauma and well-being in health-care professionals during COVID-19 first wave in Spain: the moderating role of personal protection equipment availability.

Miriam Bajo, Pilar Gallego, Maria Stavraki, Grigorios Lamprinakos, Pablo Luna, Darío Díaz

Open access · goldAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Health and quality of life outcomes, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Review
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Miriam BajoDepartment of Medical Psychology, Ciudad Real Medical School, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Camino de Moledores S/N, 13071, Ciudad Real, Spain. miriam.bajo@uclm.es.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7742-5678
Pilar GallegoDepartment of Medical Psychology, Ciudad Real Medical School, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Camino de Moledores S/N, 13071, Ciudad Real, Spain.
Maria StavrakiDepartment of Psychology, Ciudad Real Faculty of Education, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Ronda de Calatrava, 3, 13071, Ciudad Real, Spain.
Grigorios LamprinakosBirmingham Business School, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.
Pablo LunaDepartment of Psychology, Ciudad Real Faculty of Education, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Ronda de Calatrava, 3, 13071, Ciudad Real, Spain.
Darío DíazDepartment of Medical Psychology, Ciudad Real Medical School, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Camino de Moledores S/N, 13071, Ciudad Real, Spain.
University of Castilla-La Mancha · ESHospital General Universitario de Ciudad Real · ES

Funding

Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (ES) PID2020-116651GB-C32Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad, Gobierno de España PSI2017-83303-C2-2-P
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe effect of COVID-19 on Health-Care Professionals' mental health has received increased attention in the last year's literature. However, previous studies essentially evaluated psychopathological symptoms and not the presence of positive mental health. Therefore, the first objective of the present research is to evaluate health-care professionals' mental illness (i.e., anxiety and traumatic intensity) and positive mental health (i.e., well-being) using the Complete State Model of Health. Our second objective is to study the effect of Personal Protection Equipment availability on professionals' mental health.

methodsTwo-hundred and thirty-two health-care professionals working in Spain in the first line of COVID-19 patient care participated in the study. To measure anxiety, traumatic intensity and well-being participants completed the State Trait Anxiety Inventory, the Davidson Trauma Scale, and the Mental Health Continuum-Short Form. Pearson correlations were used to examine the relationships between all scales. In order to test the two continua model of mental health, we used parallel analysis and exploratory factor analysis. To analyze anxiety, traumatic intensity, and well-being differences between health-care professionals with and without Personal Protection Equipment availability we conducted different ANOVAS. To test our hypothesis regarding the moderating role of Personal Protection Equipment availability in the effect of mental illness on positive mental health, data were subjected to a hierarchical regression analysis.

resultsAs in previous studies, health-care professionals showed high levels of anxiety and traumatic intensity. They also presented low levels of well-being indicators. According to our hypothesis, results of parallel analysis and exploratory factorial analysis indicated that the measures of mental illness and positive mental health loaded on separate but correlated factors. Finally, Personal Protection Equipment availability moderated the effects of state anxiety and traumatic intensity on professionals' well-being.

conclusionsHealth-care professionals' mental illness and positive mental health reflect distinct continua, rather than the extreme ends of a single spectrum. Therefore, it is essential to measure both psychopathology and the presence of positive health to comprehensively evaluate professionals' mental health. Finally, our results indicated that Personal Protection Equipment availability is essential not only for professionals' physical health, but also for their mental health.

Indexed as

AdultAgedAnxietyCOVID-19FemaleHealth PersonnelHumansMaleMiddle AgedPersonal Protective EquipmentQuality of LifeSARS-CoV-2SpainAnxietyComplete state model of healthHealth-care professionalsWell-being

Identifiers

PMID34454527
PMCPMC8401363
OpenAlexW3196300770

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.