The mental health of health professionals: A forgotten and overlooked issue
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https://doi.org/10.37711/rpcs.2024.6.1.447Keywords:
salud mental, personal de salud, deterioro de la salud mental, trabajadores de saludAbstract
Health professionals are subjected daily to stressful and demanding situations, from which they receive a negative effect on their psychological balance. Constant and numerous studies document the high prevalence of psychological alterations. Thus, a Mexican study in 2006 evaluated 173 professionals, doctors and nurses, and found that 43.2% had a high prevalence of depersonalization and at least 41.4% of emotional exhaustion (1). In addition, when the mental health of 178 primary care health workers in Spain was evaluated during 2014, 39.3% were found with burnout syndrome, with the male gender, being an urban employee, and workload prevailing as associated factors.
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