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The psychological impact, resilience and coping of health personnel during the covid-19 pandemic.

Abstract:

Faced the health emergency caused by COVID-19, health staff shows a greater psychological condition, presenting symptoms of anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress, fear of infection, frustration, hopelessness, and worry, due to long working hours, irregular schedules, lack of protective goons, the collapse of hospitals which affects their quality of life, job performance and their mental capacity; making it difficult to fight this virus. The level of resilience and the dealing strategies placed by everyone have an important influence on this impact. The objective of this research is to determine the psychological impact, resilience, and coping of the health professionals at Hospital Santa Inés during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study will take a prospective cross-sectional descriptive-correlational approach with a quantitative ap-proach, with a sample of 120 health workers from Hospital Santa Inés, the information will be presented in tables of fre-quency and percentage with their descriptive analysis. The results obtained from the research showed that about 1/3 of the research subjects present some kind of psychological dis-tress, at the same time they use coping strategies to continue with their hard work.