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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021

The Mediating Role of Gender, Age, COVID-19 Symptoms and Changing of Mansion on the Mental Health of Healthcare Workers Operating in Italy during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Eleonora Gambaro, Carla Gramaglia, Debora Marangon, Danila Azzolina, Manuela Probo, Marco Rudoni, Patrizia Zeppegno

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Health Workers' Burnout and COVID-19 Pandemic: 1-Year after-Results from a Repeated Cross-Sectional Survey.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Eleonora GambaroDepartment of Translational Medicine, Università del Piemonte Orientale, 13100 Vercelli, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9255-5967
Carla GramagliaDepartment of Translational Medicine, Università del Piemonte Orientale, 13100 Vercelli, Italy.
Debora MarangonPsychiatry Unit, Maggiore della Carità Hospital, 28100 Novara, Italy.
Danila AzzolinaDepartment of Translational Medicine, Università del Piemonte Orientale, 13100 Vercelli, Italy.
Manuela ProboDepartment of Mental Health, ASL NOVARA, 28100 Novara, Italy.
Marco RudoniDepartment of Mental Health, ASL NOVARA, 28100 Novara, Italy.
Patrizia ZeppegnoDepartment of Translational Medicine, Università del Piemonte Orientale, 13100 Vercelli, Italy.
Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro” · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has tested the performance of hospitals and intensive care units around the world. Health care workers (HCWs) have been used to developmental symptoms, but this was especially true during the COVID-19 pandemic when HCWs have been faced with many other sources of stress and anxiety that can usually be avoided. Moreover, long-term shifts and unprecedented population restrictions have weakened people's ability to cope with stress. The research aims to observe the dynamic interplay between burnout, depression, distress, and anxiety in HCWs working in various settings, with specific a focus on emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and a diminished sense of personal achievement in mediating a worse mental health status during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. We performed a mediation analysis, which resulted in a strong correlation among depression, psychological distress, health perception and anxiety, and the impact of job burnout on anxiety, depression, and distress. Gender seemed to have a strong correlation with burnout, anxiety, and distress; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Quality of Life seemed to affect anxiety and depression; the possible changes in job tasks and duties (intended as a change in work area or location and role change)influenced depression and job burnout. Encouraging supportive and educational strategies would be recommended to policymakers.

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COVID-19AnxietyDepressionHealth PersonnelHumansMental HealthPandemicsQuality of LifeSARS-CoV-2burnoutCOVID-19 pandemichealthcare workersmediation analysismental health

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PMID34948696
PMCPMC8700931
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