Abstract
The impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of doctors who come into contact with suspects or sick people is being studied worldwide. Appropriate questionnaires sent by e-mail to the surveyed groups are used for this. The most common respondents are anaesthesiologists working at the ICU and HED. Women experience stress and anxiety more often than men. Physicians' mental health is affected by their age, workplace and access to personal protective equipment. A review of the literature shows the negative impact of the growing number of SARS-CoV-2 cases on the level of stress, anxiety and satisfaction with the work of doctors.
Highlights
Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) is a highly contagious respiratory disease
Due to the drastically increasing number of cases, COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. [10, 13, 14] Faced with such a huge challenge as the time of the pandemic, doctors have become even more exposed to chronic mental stress than before
The high risk that doctors expose themselves to when diagnosing and treating infected patients, long, often exceeding normal working hours in a hospital, unpredictability of the virus, helplessness caused by lack of control, and death despite heroic struggle for life - these are some of the factors that can lead doctors to what is known as burnout
Summary
Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) is a highly contagious respiratory disease. The first case was registered on December 31, 2019 in Hubei Province, China. Due to the drastically increasing number of cases, COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. Its three main dimensions are: feeling of energy exhaustion or fatigue, increasing emotional distance from work or feeling of cynicism related to work, and reduced efficiency [17,19]. Exposure to this kind of symptoms can have a very negative impact on the ability and quality of services provided. Health care system during the crisis caused by COVID-19 [7] Fear and living in a chronic threat to health and life affect the productivity of doctors and the level of care for patients [10] Exposure to this kind of symptoms can have a very negative impact on the ability and quality of services provided. health care system during the crisis caused by COVID-19 [7] Fear and living in a chronic threat to health and life affect the productivity of doctors and the level of care for patients [10]
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