Depression in healthcare workers: influence of Fear of Death, Spirituality, and Religion

Resumen

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased deaths worldwide, with Argentina registering an excess of mortality from all causes of 10.6%, which has generated a considerable workload in the health sector, with workers being the most affected (Ministry of Health, 2021; Danet 2021). One of the major consequences to which they were exposed has been the development of symptoms of depression (Kaplan 2015; Arrom 2015). To observe how the variables of Fear of death, Spirituality, and Religiosity influence the possibility of developing symptoms of depression in the population of health workers, a quantitative, cross-sectional, and regression approach was used in a population of 200 health care workers, with Fear of death being the most relevant explanatory variable, followed by Religiosity and Spirituality respectively to understand the model.