Mental burn out in young persons with COVID-19-infection
- Authors: Uliukin I.M.1, Sechin A.A.1, Orlova E.S.1, Bolekhan V.N.1, Shuklina A.A.1
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Affiliations:
- Military medical academy of S.M. Kirov
- Issue: Vol 22, No 4 (2020)
- Pages: 72-75
- Section: Clinical trials
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1682-7392/article/view/62808
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/brmma62808
- ID: 62808
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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.
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I. M. Uliukin
Military medical academy of S.M. Kirov
Author for correspondence.
Email: vmeda-nio@mil.ru
Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg
A. A. Sechin
Military medical academy of S.M. Kirov
Email: vmeda-nio@mil.ru
Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg
E. S. Orlova
Military medical academy of S.M. Kirov
Email: vmeda-nio@mil.ru
Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg
V. N. Bolekhan
Military medical academy of S.M. Kirov
Email: vmeda-nio@mil.ru
Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg
A. A. Shuklina
Military medical academy of S.M. Kirov
Email: vmeda-nio@mil.ru
Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg