• Katarzyna Warchoł-Biedermann, Przemysław Daroszewski, Grażyna Bączyk, Krzysztof Greberski, Paweł Bugajski, Jacek Karoń, Ewa Mojs, Michał Ziarko, Aleksandra Jasielska, and Włodzimierz Samborski.
• Department of Clinical Psychology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland.
• Med Princ Pract. 2021 Jan 1; 30 (4): 395-400.

ObjectiveThis cross-sectional study aimed to assess the stress outcomes in health-care staff working during the COVID-19 pandemic and to explore the role of coping in the relationship between stress outcomes and mental health dimensions with Preacher & Hayes's mediation analysis.Subjects And MethodsOne hundred seventy participants including physicians (n = 41; 24.1%), nurses (n = 114, 67.1%), and paramedics (n = 15, 8.8%) with a mean age of 37.69 ± 12.23 years and an average seniority of 14.40 ± 12.32 years were administered the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20, Cohen's Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10), the Emotional Processing Scale, and Positive and Negative Affect Schedule. The data were analyzed by estimation of simple correlation coefficients and a Preacher and Hayes's mediation procedure.ResultsParticipants reported elevated levels of stress (7-8 sten on the sten scale developed for the PSS-10 questionnaire). Statistically significant differences in the stress levels between nurses, paramedics, and physicians could not be determined. In contrast, significant association between mental health outcomes and the occupational category could not be found.ConclusionOur observations support the assumption about a controlling role of coping in the relationship between work-related stress, alexithymia, emotional processing loneliness and positive/negative affect in medical staff working amid pandemic.© 2021 The Author(s) Published by S. Karger AG, Basel.

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