The negative impact of pandemic COVID 19 on health professionals in primary, secondary and tertiary health care in Greece-the survey

Athina, Kanellakopoulou and Andreas, Andrikopoulos and Constantinos, Koutsojannis and Vasilios, Triantafyllou (2025) The negative impact of pandemic COVID 19 on health professionals in primary, secondary and tertiary health care in Greece-the survey. World Journal of Biology Pharmacy and Health Sciences, 22 (1). 041-054. ISSN 2582-5542

A sample survey was carried out in 2022 among health professionals of the health structures of seven regions in the context of the new corona pandemic. The research concerned the fatigue experienced by health professionals of many specialties within public health structures from 2020 to 2022, from the moment of the appearance of the first case, until the waves of the disease subside. Globally, the descriptions of the conditions that prevailed immediately after the outbreak of the disease in many countries were terrifying, since its invasion caused strong negative feelings and reactions. The fear of the unknown pathogenic entity and the extreme symptoms it caused manage to synthesize a negative psychology in the society and a negatively charged climate among health professionals, as a result of which many were led to absolute despair. Anxiety, worry, fear of the unknown characteristics of the disease, of the complications, symptoms and consequences, as well as the large volume of patients who were admitted to the hospitals were the reasons that the health staff were intensely tested, emotionally and physically, reaching overwork and exhaustion. The research tool was a questionnaire that resulted from the synthesis of the two others questionnaire-tools that focus on the study of occupational burnout of health professionals, the DASS 21 and the CBI. The results showed that health professionals in Greece experienced intense negative emotions such as anxiety and worry, at a high level, but not very high, as happened in other countries around the world hit by COVID 19.