Ansiedad en el personal de primera línea de atención al Covid-19 en el Hospital General Macas-Morona Santiago-Ecuador, periodo 2021

Abstract

Anxiety is a common response, which is sometimes beneficial because it helps people to be alert to different situations, specifically dangerous situations, but when it persists for too long it can become pathological. Given the events caused by covid-19 in the months of 2020 and 2021, the presence of anxiety in all people increased significantly, especially in medical personnel, who have been facing this disease since the first line of changing their lifestyle. The general objective of this

research was to establish the presence of anxiety in covid-19front-line personnel at the Macas- Morona Santiago-Ecuador General Hospital, period 2021, and to describe the relationship between

the presence of anxiety and sociodemographic variables. The work has a quantitative, non- experimental and exploratory-descriptive approach. We worked with the approximate population

of 59 people, including doctors, nurses, and assistants who make up the frontline staff of covid-19 care at Macas General Hospital. The instruments used were the Zung Anxiety Self-Assessment Scale, the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale, and a sociodemographic record. The results obtained indicate that there is a presence of anxiety in the population of this study, it was also found that the presence of anxiety is related to younger age, female sex, and single and married marital status.