Anxiety in primary health care workers in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic
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https://doi.org/10.48075/ri.v25i2.30964Keywords:
Anxiety, Primary Health Care, COVID-19, Health WorkersAbstract
Unfavorable working conditions and stress experienced in facing COVID-19 caused changes in anxiety levels among health workers. Objetivou-se avaliar os níveis de ansiedade dos trabalhadores da Atenção Primária à Saúde do município de Santa Cecília - Paraíba. For this, a cross-sectional, census, exploratory-descriptive study with a quantitative approach was conducted, composed of 53 workers from Primary Health Care. The treatment of the research data involved its tabulation, consolidation and organization in spreadsheets of the software Excel - 2007. The variables were measured in nominal, ordinal, and interval scales. The construction of simple frequency tables and descriptive measures enabled the inferential multivariate statistical analysis, using the R-Studio software. It was observed that 45 (84.9%) of these workers are female and the most expressive symptom of anxiety was tiredness, pointed out by 47 (88.7%) of these professionals. In addition, 21 (39.6%) of participants pointed to excessive demand as the most relevant factor for the onset of anxiety. When analyzing the level of anxiety - trait, it was observed that 38 (72%) of workers had high anxiety and, in relation to anxiety - state, it was found that 40 (76%) had high anxiety. Therefore, it was evidenced expressive manifestations of anxiety symptoms and the predominance of high level of anxiety - trait and anxiety - state among the population studied during the pandemic period caused by SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
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