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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022

Anxiety, Depression, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Symptomatology According to Gender in Health-Care Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Peru Shortened Title: "Psychological Impact of the Pandemic on Women".

Alex Ricardo Martínez Pajuelo, José Eduardo Irrazabal Ramos, Maria Lazo-Porras

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Alex Ricardo Martínez PajueloSchool of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), Lima 15067, Peru.ORCID 0000-0002-6595-8813
José Eduardo Irrazabal RamosSchool of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), Lima 15067, Peru.ORCID 0000-0002-1365-1801
Maria Lazo-PorrasCRONICAS Centre of Excellence in Chronic Diseases, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima 15066, Peru.ORCID 0000-0003-0062-5476
Peruvian University of Applied Sciences · PEUniversity of Geneva · CH

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveThe current study will evaluate the association that the COVID-19 pandemic has had with health-care workers and identify the factors that influenced the female gender being more affected.

methodsThis is a cross-sectional study conducted in two hospitals in Arequipa (a Peruvian city). The participants were health-care workers. We applied a questionnaire with sociodemographic information and three scales: the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7, the Patient Health Questionnaire-9, and the Primary Care Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Screen for DSM-5. The main outcomes were anxiety, depression, and PTSD scores. The exposure of interest was gender. The scores of the scales were estimated by medians and percentiles 25-75 (p25-p75), and we used linear regression to estimate the crude and adjusted coefficients and their respective confidence intervals at 95% (CI 95%).

resultsThere were 109 participants, and 43.1% were women. The anxiety, depression, and PTSD median (p25-p75) scores in the study population were 6 (2-11), 6 (2-10), and 1 (0-3), respectively. The adjusted analysis showed that the female sex had 4.48 (CI 95% 2.95-6.00), 4.50 (CI 95% 2.39-6.62), and 1.13 (CI 95% 0.50-1.76) higher points on average for the scales of anxiety, depression, and PTSD symptoms in comparison to males, respectively.

conclusionsFemale health-care workers showed increased scores of mental health issues in comparison to male health-care workers.

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COVID-19Stress Disorders, Post-TraumaticAnxietyAnxiety DisordersCross-Sectional StudiesDepressionFemaleHumansMalePandemicsPeruSARS-CoV-2anxiety disordercoronavirus infectionsdepressionmental healthPost-Traumatic Stress Disorder

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