Mental Health Status and Related Factors Among Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Physicians in the Covid-19 Pandemic

Dokuz Eylül University (DEU)

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Insomnia; Covid19; Depression; Anxiety; Coronavirus

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04500652

PMRMentalcovid

Details and patient eligibility

About

In December 2019, a highly infectious disease caused by a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in Wuhan, China. On March 11th 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Facing this critical situation, health care workers on the front line are at risk of developing psychological distress and other mental health symptoms. Physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) physicians works both in specialty outpateint/inpatient clinic and pandemic outpatient/inpatient clinics during the outbreak. Accordingly, PM&R physicians are expected to be mentally affected by COVID-19 pandemic. In this study we aimed to evaluate mental health status of PM&R physicians and related factors during COVID-19 pandemic. This study is a cross-sectional survey which is conducted on an online platform. Demographic data, working conditions of PM&R physicians and factors that may be related to mental health status is questioned in the survey. The Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale - 21 (DASS-21) is used to measure the emotional states of depression, anxiety and stress.The Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) is used to assess the severity of both nighttime and daytime components of insomnia.

Enrollment: 310 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 24 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being a physical medicine and rehabilitation physician
• Worked during COVID-19 pandemic in specialty outpatient/inpatient clinic or pandemic outpatient/inpatient clinic.

Exclusion criteria

• Being a specialist in a branch other than physical medicine and rehabilitation