Healthcare Worker’s Mental Health During the Epidemic Peak of COVID-19 [Letter]

Healthcare Worker’s Mental Health During the Epidemic Peak of COVID-19 [Letter]

Nugroho HSW, Acob JRU, Martiningsih W

Heru Santoso Wahito Nugroho,1 Joel Rey Ugsang Acob,2 Wiwin Martiningsih3 1Poltekkes Kemenkes Surabaya, Surabaya, Indonesia; 2Faculty of Nursing, Visayas State University, Baybay, Philippines; 3Nursing Department, Poltekkes Kemenkes Malang, Malang, IndonesiaCorrespondence: Wiwin MartiningsihNursing Department, Poltekkes Kemenkes Malang, Jl. Ijen 77 C, Malang, IndonesiaEmail martini2271@gmail.com We have read the article “Healthcare Worker’s Mental Health and Their Associated Predictors During the Epidemic Peak of COVID-19”. Based on the results, the researchers concluded that healthcare worker’s stress, anxiety and depression are influenced by social-support, working time, discrimination and workplace violence; and not influenced by age, gender, working at designated hospital, medical equipment, patient–physician relations and household transmission- related fears.1   View the original paper by Yang and colleagues

2021

Anxiety, Stress, Depression, Health worker

Biotemas

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Psychology, Industrial psychology