SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE MENTAL HEALTH OF REFERRAL COVID-19 HOSPITAL STAFF

Abstract

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a respiratory disease that was initially detected in Wuhan. Researchers successfully isolated a novel coronavirus, Severe Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), later considered to be the cause. Until July 9^th 2020, Indonesian Ministry of Health reported 70.736 confirmed cases with 3.417 death cases (CFR 4,8%). This pandemic causes negative impact not only physically but also psychologically, on individual and social level, both medical personnel in the frontline and nonmedical staff working at the referral COVID-19 hospital. This research aims to analyse the mental health of medical and nonmedical staff at Universitas Airlangga Hospital in facing COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, we use cross-sectional with purposive sampling method. The result shows midwife has the highest depressive and anxiety scores. Anxiety mostly occurred in hospital staff which only had two social supports. We conclude there are correlations between anxiety, stress level and having children inversely (p value < 0.05). We also found gender and marital status correlate with anxiety level (p value < 0.05).