Mental burn out in young persons with COVID-19-infection

Abstract

Currently, both in our country and around the world, there is an epidemic of coronavirus infection COVID-19. A list of its main forms of syndromes and complications is known. Against this background, people who have undergone COVID-19 may develop a mental burnout syndrome, which at its core has a manifested growing emotional exhaustion, due, first of all, to the tension of the workload among the representatives of the human-to-human profession. Features of mental burnout were studied in 62 convalescents 90 days after discharge from the hospital. A feature of the study is the fact that it is almost impossible to select a control group for the disease under study. Therefore, psychological indicators were compared between different clinical forms of COVID-19. There were no statistically significant differences between the indices of the subscales of the Burnout Syndrome Questionnaire in different forms of COVID-19. Psycho-emotional exhaustion in all convalescents is weakly expressed, personal distance is not expressed, professional motivation is high in 100% of cases. Moreover, in patients with pneumonia caused by COVID-19, this figure was 90%. At the same time, the index of mental burnout in survivors of COVID-19 has an average value. In a number of cases, emotional exhaustion was revealed, which was combined with physical overwork; however, it did not significantly affect the indicators of mental burnout, which indicates adequate medical and psychological support of patients in the course of treatment.