Psychological state of the stomatological staff of the emergency department during COVID-19

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Stomatology, COVID-19, Coronavirus, Epidemiology.

Abstract

Patients suffering from different health problems come to the stomatological emergency services daily, for which, in the face of the new pandemic, the need to be well informed about COVID19, to serve as health promoters in the communities and comply with with the protection measures to avoid contagion by this virus. The objective was to evaluate the psychological state of the stomatological staff of the emergency consultation of the "Manuel Cedeño" University Clinic of Stomatological Specialties during COVID-19. A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out in 12 dental professionals who worked in the dental emergency consultation between April and May 2020. The level of stress, anxiety and level of functioning were studied. It turned out that 91.66% of those studied presented normal stress; Anxiety as a state predominated, especially with medium and low levels for 33.33% and 25.00% respectively; 100.0% presented neurotic functioning; there was no association between the level of functioning and stress (p = 0.91) and anxiety (p = 0.98). It is concluded that the psychological state of the stomatological staff of the emergency department during COVID-19 was characterized by a normal stress level, medium and low levels of anxiety states with neurotic functioning.


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Published

2022-06-22

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Zambrano Gómez V, Arias Molina Y, Herrero Solano Y, Reyes Aguilar A, Pérez Milán A. Psychological state of the stomatological staff of the emergency department during COVID-19. RM [Internet]. 2022 Jun. 22 [cited 2025 Jun. 2];26(3):e2004. Available from: https://revmultimed.sld.cu/index.php/mtm/article/view/2004

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