Mental Health of Nurses in Mexico during COVID-19: Aggression, Rejection, and its Impact on Health
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| Formato: | artículo original |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de Publicación: | 2023 |
| Descripción: | Aims: Our study aims to measure Nurses’ perception of aggression and violence during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico. Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has generated physical and emotional strain in all health workers, such as rejection, maltreatment, stress, and anxiety among health workers. Methods: Analytical cross-sectional study, applied virtually through a Google form, to collect sociodemographic, occupational, and clinical details of workers. We applied the Goldberg General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28), the sample size was 560 nurses from universities, hospitals, and nursing colleges across Mexico. Results: The principal source of aggression against nurses were strangers, increasing symptoms of anxiety and insomnia. Conclusions: The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated violence towards and discrimination against health professionals. This work investigated the perception of aggression and rejection towards nursing staff during the pandemic. Implications for Nursing Management: Nursing students, technicians and graduates perceived more aggression than specialist nurses or those with a post-graduate qualification. Among our respondents, we found that younger nurses, who lived in the East of the country, worked in the public sector in clinical or hospital settings, and had contact with COVID-19 patients or had been diagnosed with the virus were more susceptive to this type of violence. |
| País: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Institución: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/55625 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/wimblu/article/view/55625 |
| Palabra clave: | COVID-19 psychosocial violence discrimination health personnel psicosocial violencia discriminación salud personal |