A cross-sectional analysis of prevalence and factors related to depression, anxiety, and stress in health care workers amidst the COVID-19 pandemic

摘要

COVID-19 pandemic has presented unprecedented challenges to the healthcare workers (HCWs) fraternity, leading to asubstantialimpact on their psychologicalhealth. Adequatecareshould betaken for decreasing this occupationalstress to ensurea healthy and robustclinicalworkforce.[1] Thecurrentstudywas designedprimarily to outlinethe prevalence of depression,anxiety,and stressamong the HCWsand administrativestaff. Thesecondary outcome was to compare depression,anxiety, stress score(DASS) between thefirst-lineand thesecond-line HCWsand othercommon factorsassociated with increased DASS scores.