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Natasha da Silva Indruczaki Guedes1, Polla Victória Paim Rodrigues Finckler1, Silviamar Camponogara2
1Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Objectives:
to measure the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on minor psychological disorders among Mobile Emergency Care Service workers.
Methods:
this was a retrospective and prospective cohort study conducted in a southern Brazilian capital. Fifty-two workers (88.2% sample size) were monitored before the pandemic and two years later, using the Self-Reporting Questionnaire. Relative risk was estimated using the generalized estimating equations model and multiple analysis of variance for repeated measures, considering p<0.05.
Results:
disorders increased from 32.7% (n=17) to 40.4% (n=21) after two years of the pandemic (effect 0.23; p=0.12), with an increased risk for females (RR=2.10; 95%CI 1.11-3.97), comorbidities (RR=2.33; 95%CI 1.13-4.08), medication use (RR=2.37; 95%CI 1.30-4.33), nursing technicians (RR=4.44; 95%CI 1.19-16.56), and nurses (RR=6.41; 95%CI 1.69-24.24). The disorders were associated with neck and low back pain, physical, social, and psychological harm (p<0.01).
Conclusions:
minor psychological disorders had a high prevalence, intensifying during the pandemic.
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