Dimensions of emotional distress among Brazilian workers in a COVID-19 reference hospital: A factor analytical study
Marcos O Carvalho-Alves, Vitor A Petrilli-Mazon, Andre R Brunoni, Andre Malbergier, Pedro Fukuti, Guilherme V Polanczyk, Euripedes C Miguel, Felipe Corchs, Yuan-Pang Wang
Marcos O Carvalho-Alves, Vitor A Petrilli-Mazon, Andre R Brunoni, Andre Malbergier, Pedro Fukuti, Guilherme V Polanczyk, Yuan-Pang Wang, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo 05403-010, Brazil
Marcos O Carvalho-Alves, Felipe Corchs, Program in Neuroscience and Behavior, Department of Experimental Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo 01060-970, Brazil
Euripedes C Miguel, Department and Institute of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo 05403-010, Brazil
Felipe Corchs, Department of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo 05403-010, Brazil
Author contributions: Carvalho-Alves MO, Brunoni AR, Malbergier A, Fukuti P, Polanczyk GV, Miguel EC and Corchs F contributed to the study design, data acquisition and interpretation, and revised the manuscript; Wang YP conceived the statistical analysis; Carvalho-Alves MO, Petrilli-Mazon VA, Corchs F and Wang YP conducted the statistical analysis and wrote the preliminary draft; all authors reviewed and approved the manuscript in its final version.
Institutional review board statement: This study was approved by the National Research Ethics Commission of the Ministry of Health, Brazil.
Informed consent statement: All study participants gave their informed consent before study inclusion.
Conflict-of-interest statement: There are no conflicts of interest in this work.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
STROBE statement: The authors have read the STROBE Statement-checklist of items, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the STROBE Statement-checklist of items.
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https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Yuan-Pang Wang, MD, MSc, PhD, Research Scientist, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Rua Dr. Ovídio Pires de Campos, 785, Cerqueira César, Sao Paulo 05403-010, Brazil. gnap_inbox@hotmail.com
Received: December 21, 2021
Peer-review started: December 21, 2021
First decision: March 13, 2022
Revised: April 22, 2022
Accepted: May 13, 2022
Article in press: May 13, 2022
Published online: June 19, 2022
