Health outcomes and psychosocial risk exposures among healthcare workers during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak

Marina Moreno Martínez; María Isabel Fernández-Cano; Maria Feijoo-Cid; Clara Llorens Serrano; Albert Navarro

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105499

Health outcomes and psychosocial risk exposures among healthcare workers during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak

Saf Sci. 2022 Jan:145:105499. doi: 10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105499. Epub 2021 Sep 16.

Authors

Marina Moreno Martínez¹, María Isabel Fernández-Cano^{2

3}, Maria Feijoo-Cid^{2

3}, Clara Llorens Serrano^{4

5

6}, Albert Navarro^{4

7}

Affiliations

¹ Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain.
² Nursing Department, Faculty of Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain.
³ Multidisciplinary Research Group in Health and Society (GREMSAS), (2017 SGR 917), Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ Research Group on Psychosocial Risks, Organization of Work and Health (POWAH), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain.
⁵ Union Institute of Work, Environment and Health (ISTAS), Reference Centre on Work Organization and Health, Barcelona, Spain.
⁶ Sociology Department, Faculty of Sociology and Political Sciences, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain.
⁷ Biostatistics Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain.

Abstract

The aim is to describe the health and psychosocial risk factors of Spanish healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: A cross-sectional study by means of an online questionnaire (April-May 2020). The data comes from the database resulting from the COTS project "Working conditions, insecurity, and health in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic". The sample consisted of 1989 health care workers.

Results: Women, young people (doctors and nurses) and the middle-aged (assistants) had poorer health and greater exposure to psychosocial risks. Geriatric assistants were the most-affected occupational group.

Conclusions: gender, occupation, and age are focuses of inequality in the exposure of health care workers to psychosocial risks.

Keywords: COVID-19; Health; Health care workers; Psychosocial risk.