The mental health status of Turkish healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic: Risk and protective factors.

4区医学 Q2 Medicine

Psychiatria Danubina Pub Date : 2025-05-01 DOI:10.24869/psyd.2025.64

Elvan Ulucan Özkan, Seval Bekiroğlu

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Abstract

Background: During the pandemic, healthcare professionals were at high risk for both virus transmission and the development of mental disorders. This study aimed to analyse the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of healthcare professionals working in various healthcare institutions in Turkey.

Subject and methods: Between June 1st and 15th 2020, a convenient sample of 343 Turkish healthcare professionals (doctors, nurses, dentists, social workers/psychologists, health technicians, and administrative staff) via online Google Forms. Participants completed a structured questionnaire (32 questions), the Turkish version of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28).

Results: The pandemic affected the mental health of almost half of healthcare professionals (47.8 %, GHQ-28 ≥ 5,). The factors significantly affecting the GHQ-28 total score include gender, age, psychiatric medication use, finding adequate workplace measures, workplace psychosocial support, needing psychosocial support, exclusion/stigma, weekly working hours and increased workload. These factors are associated with increased somatic symptoms, anxiety, insomnia, depression and social functioning impairment.

Conclusions: The study highlights the importance of these factors in understanding and managing the mental health issues of healthcare professionals, particularly those on the front lines staff during the times of global health crises.

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2019冠状病毒病大流行期间土耳其医疗保健专业人员的心理健康状况：风险和保护因素

背景：在大流行期间，卫生保健专业人员是病毒传播和精神障碍发展的高风险人群。本研究旨在分析COVID-19大流行对在土耳其各医疗机构工作的医疗保健专业人员心理健康的影响。主题和方法：在2020年6月1日至15日期间，通过在线谷歌表格对343名土耳其医疗保健专业人员（医生、护士、牙医、社会工作者/心理学家、卫生技术人员和行政人员）进行方便抽样。参与者填写了一份结构化问卷（32个问题），即土耳其版的一般健康问卷（GHQ-28）。结果：大流行影响了近一半卫生保健专业人员的心理健康（47.8%,GHQ-28≥5,）。显著影响GHQ-28总分的因素包括性别、年龄、精神科药物使用、是否找到适当的工作场所措施、工作场所社会心理支持、需要社会心理支持、排斥/污名、每周工作时间和工作量增加。这些因素与躯体症状、焦虑、失眠、抑郁和社交功能障碍的增加有关。结论：该研究强调了这些因素在理解和管理卫生保健专业人员，特别是在全球卫生危机时期第一线工作人员的心理健康问题方面的重要性。

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Psychiatria Danubina 医学-精神病学

CiteScore

3.00

自引率

0.00%

发文量

288

审稿时长

4-8 weeks

期刊介绍： Psychiatria Danubina is a peer-reviewed open access journal of the Psychiatric Danubian Association, aimed to publish original scientific contributions in psychiatry, psychological medicine and related science (neurosciences, biological, psychological, and social sciences as well as philosophy of science and medical ethics, history, organization and economics of mental health services).