Increase in use of psychiatric sick leave during COVID-19 pandemic by healthcare workers in a municipality in Argentina.
Agustina María MarconiUrsula MyersAlfredo Mariano RetamarIvana Jazmin FreddiJulieta ChiarelliRafael ZamoraPublished in: Revista brasileira de medicina do trabalho : publicacao oficial da Associacao Nacional de Medicina do Trabalho-ANAMT (2022)
Healthcare workers in the Argentinian municipality of Vicente Lopez took a significantly greater amount of psychiatric sick leave during the pandemic. The higher rates of psychiatric sick leave taken by women replicates other findings of higher rates of psychological symptoms in female healthcare workers.