Secondary Traumatization Outcomes and Associated Factors Among the Health Care Workers Exposed to the COVID-19

Selim Arpacioglu, Meltem Gurler and Suleyman Cakiroglu

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2021, vol. 67, issue 1, 84-89

Abstract: Background: Secondary traumatization exposure and mental health conditions of health care workers gained importance during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic period. Aims: In our study, we aim to research the secondary traumatization and associated factors among health care workers. Method: This cross-sectional study was applied through an online questionnaire using the snowball sampling method. Two hundred fifty-one health care workers from different units/services and 312 non-medical worker adults attended to the research. Health care workers were divided into two groups based on working with COVID-19 patients at the frontline or not. The data were collected via Introductory Information Form, Secondary Traumatic Stress Scale (STSS) and Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4) between 22 May and 30 May 2020. Results: Among the 563 participants, 251 (44.6%) were health care workers and 312 (55.4%) were non-medical workers. The anxiety, depression and secondary traumatization scores of the frontline health care workers for the COVID-19 were found to be significantly higher than those of the other health workers or non-medical workers ( p  

Keywords: COVID-19; health care workers; secondary traumatization; depression; anxiety; risk factors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1177/0020764020940742

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