Influence of the Sanitary, Economic, and Social Crisis of COVID-19 on the Emotional State of Dentistry in Galicia (Spain)
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Studio Design
2.2. Questionnaire Design
2.3. Selection of Participants and Sample Size
2.4. Variable Analysis
- Personal sociodemographic data: age, gender, members of the family unit, marital status, and sick leave.
- Data on professional practice: years of professional work, specialties, number of clinics, number of dental teams, number of employees, workforce reduction during the pandemic, weekly working hours and working pattern, number of patients seen weekly, percentage decrease in patients, and decrease in income.
- Data on the emotional state and COVID-19: composed of 24 items that were answered on a Likert scale with four options, assigned values of 0 (never/never), 1 (sometimes/once a month or less), 2 (quite a few times/once a week), and 3 (always/every day).
2.5. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Analysis of Sociodemographic Data
3.2. Analysis of Professional Practice
3.3. Analysis of Emotional State
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Gender | No. Cases | % |
Male | 136 | 39.19 |
Female | 211 | 60.81 |
Marital Status | No. Cases | % |
Married/Stable partner | 252 | 72.62 |
Separated/Divorced | 43 | 12.39 |
Single | 45 | 12.97 |
Widowed | 4 | 1.15 |
Other | 3 | 0.87 |
Number of Family Members | No. Cases | % |
1 | 39 | 11.24 |
2 | 86 | 24.78 |
3 | 75 | 21.61 |
4 | 104 | 29.97 |
5 | 40 | 11.53 |
6 | 3 | 0.87 |
Out of Work in the Last 6 Months | No. Cases | % |
Yes | 28 | 8.07 |
No | 319 | 91.93 |
Questions | Average | SD | Answer | ||||
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0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
1 | Do you feel you are helping to improve the current situation of the pandemic? | 2.09 | 1.03 | 10% | 20% | 22% | 49% |
2 | Do you think you can catch COVID-19 by carrying out your work as a dentist? | 1.86 | 1.03 | 9% | 31% | 24% | 36% |
3 | Have you considered leaving your job to protect yourself and your family? | 0.48 | 0.80 | 67% | 21% | 8% | 4% |
4 | Have you felt disappointed in your dentistry work due to the COVID-19 conditions? | 1.42 | 0.93 | 18% | 35% | 31% | 15% |
5 | Has PPE made it more difficult to carry out your daily work? | 2.16 | 1.01 | 9% | 19% | 26% | 46% |
6 | Have you felt discriminated against as a health professional during the pandemic? | 1.33 | 1.08 | 28% | 29% | 24% | 19% |
7 | Is your family scared that you would return home infected with COVID-19? | 1.24 | 1.06 | 31% | 31% | 23% | 16% |
8 | Do you live with any family members who are in a high-risk group for COVID-19? | 1.20 | 1.31 | 49% | 13% | 11% | 27% |
9 | Were you scared of being an asymptomatic carrier before you were vaccinated? | 1.74 | 1.11 | 19% | 21% | 27% | 34% |
10 | Have you had nightmares or insomnia due to COVID-19? | 1.16 | 1.09 | 38% | 24% | 24% | 14% |
11 | Do you feel stressed or distressed due to COVID-19? | 1.69 | 1.04 | 16% | 27% | 30% | 26% |
12 | Do you feel unmotivated to go to the clinic daily? | 1.18 | 0.95 | 27% | 38% | 23% | 12% |
13 | Do you feel emotionally exhausted at the end of the working day? | 1.91 | 0.95 | 10% | 26% | 33% | 32% |
14 | Do you think the expectations, demands, and state of mind of patients have changed? | 2.26 | 0.75 | 2% | 15% | 41% | 42% |
15 | Do you feel more sensitive to the criticism that patients make about their treatment? | 1.52 | 0.97 | 17% | 33% | 33% | 17% |
16 | Have you felt lonely in the face of the management of the pandemic? | 1.68 | 1.07 | 18% | 30% | 25% | 28% |
17 | Have you lost interest in dentistry since the pandemic began? | 0.87 | 0.95 | 44% | 31% | 17% | 8% |
18 | Have you considered temporarily moving away from the profession? | 0.57 | 0.87 | 62% | 20% | 12% | 6% |
19 | Do you feel supported by the rest of your team regarding the measures (change in working hours, change in contracts, furlough, etc.) that you have had to take to deal with the pandemic and its financial consequences? | 2.18 | 0.97 | 9% | 15% | 29% | 47% |
20 | Has the pandemic provided you with a new perspective on life? | 2.25 | 0.85 | 5% | 13% | 35% | 48% |
21 | Would you wish to make serious changes to the management of protocols and to the management of human resources? | 1.63 | 0.96 | 12% | 31% | 34% | 23% |
22 | Have you cried or have you lost hope any day during the pandemic? | 1.01 | 0.95 | 36% | 30% | 26% | 8% |
23 | At any time have you felt the need to make a radical change to your life? | 1.56 | 1.08 | 23% | 22% | 33% | 23% |
24 | Has your emotional life seen a significant change during the pandemic? | 1.65 | 1.00 | 14% | 28% | 32% | 25% |
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Rey-Martínez, M.S.; Rey-Martínez, M.H.; Martínez-Rodríguez, N.; Meniz-García, C.; Suárez-Quintanilla, J.M. Influence of the Sanitary, Economic, and Social Crisis of COVID-19 on the Emotional State of Dentistry in Galicia (Spain). Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20, 3088. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20043088
Rey-Martínez MS, Rey-Martínez MH, Martínez-Rodríguez N, Meniz-García C, Suárez-Quintanilla JM. Influence of the Sanitary, Economic, and Social Crisis of COVID-19 on the Emotional State of Dentistry in Galicia (Spain). International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2023; 20(4):3088. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20043088
Chicago/Turabian StyleRey-Martínez, María Sofía, María Helena Rey-Martínez, Natalia Martínez-Rodríguez, Cristina Meniz-García, and José María Suárez-Quintanilla. 2023. "Influence of the Sanitary, Economic, and Social Crisis of COVID-19 on the Emotional State of Dentistry in Galicia (Spain)" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20, no. 4: 3088. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20043088