Depression in healthcare workers: influence of Fear of Death, Spirituality, and Religion

HUGO SIMKIN; CECILIA YACCARINI; MARINA COLOMBANO

Subjetividad y Procesos Cognitivos

Universidad de Ciencias Empresariales y Sociales (UCES)

Año: 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased deaths worldwide, with Argentina registering an excess ofmortality from all causes of 10.6%, which has generated a considerable workload in the health sector, with workers being the most affected. One of the major consequences to which they were exposed has been the development of symptoms of depression. To observe how the variables of Fear of death, Spirituality, and Religiosity influence the possibility of developing symptoms of depression in the population of health workers, a quantitative, cross-sectional, and regression approach was used in a population of 200 healthcare workers, with Fear of death being the most relevant explanatory variable, followed by Religiosity and Spirituality respectively to understand the model.