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INTRODUCTION: The current COVID-19 pandemic highlights the different difficulties that healthcare workers have to face in this context. In order to quantify some aspects of the current working situation, the Asociación de Psiquiatras Argentinos (APSA) designed a survey for Mental Healthcare workers. The goal was to: measure and know what are the working conditions of those working in Mental Health in Argentina, in this pandemic context. METHODS: Cross sectional descriptive study. Convenience sample. The survey was designed and sent in a digital format, thru APSA means of communication. The survey had 27 questions and one comments option. Questions explored sociodemographic variables, worked related aspects and discrimination suffered by participants. RESULTS: The survey, in its digital format, was answered by 710 participants. 32% of those in the public sector pointed out that people needed to bring their own personal protective equipment, compared to 56% in the private sector. For protocols in place, nearly 82% of public sector responses said there is a protocol for COVID-19 compatible symptoms in patients, compared to 58% in the private sector. And for new patients in an inpatient facility, responses showed that more than 50% had a protocol in the public sector, vs less than half in the private setting. CONCLUSIONS: This survey and the results allows to know and have evidence on which were the working conditions at the beginning of the pandemic. Having a plan considering what is known and what is available, allows a more appropriate approach, for both the workers and those who depend on them for care.
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COVID-19 , Pandemias , Argentina/epidemiologia , Estudos Transversais , Pessoal de Saúde , Humanos , SARS-CoV-2RESUMO
Frequently Major Depressive Episodes in patients with psychotic features are not obvious as in other patients with psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia, that makes difficult to carry out the diagnosis. The results (n= 48) show bigger occurrence of depressed mood, somatic symptoms and decreased motor activity (HAM-D), and show differences in depression when the corporal disorder take characteristic predominant. Psychotic symptoms was suspiciousness and unusual thought content (BPRS). Both gender had characteristic symptoms, women: depression and somatic symptoms, male: (retardation) slow in work and activities, that take to the slowness. It is convenient to have present the consigned symptoms, that could collaborate in the differential diagnosis.