RT Journal Article
T1 COVID-19 Pandemic and Death Anxiety in Security Forces in Spain
A1 Lázaro Pérez, Cristina
A1 Martínez López, José Ángel
A1 Gómez Galán, Juan Antonio
A1 Fernández Martínez, María Mar
AB The pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which produces COVID-19 disease,has revealed to political and social circles a series of needs that have not yet been met. The workers ofthe State Security Forces and the Armed Forces have done an extraordinary job to try to alleviate theeffects that the pandemic has had on the population and to return stability to the citizenry as much aspossible. In this context, the following investigation is developed based on two objectives: (PO1) toknow the level of anxiety in the face of death in these professionals; (PO2) to determine the predictivevariables in the above-mentioned phenomenon. Professionals from all over Spain have participatedin the study (n = 2079). From a quantitative perspective, a questionnaire was developed from theCollet–Lester death anxiety scale. The results show a total level of 69.2% in the scale, as well as somehigher levels about the fear of death of others (82.1%) and the fear of the process of dying of others(78.2%). On the other hand, from the binary logistic regressions, four variables are evidenced thatcondition the risk of suffering death anxiety: (a) certainty of needing psychological treatment in thefuture; (b) absence of Individual Protection Equipment (PPE); (c) high levels of Emotional Exhaustion;(d) high levels of depersonalization—these last two come from the Maslach and Jackson Burnout scale.These data show a need for training and intervention in the emotional and psychological demands ofthe professionals of the Armed Forces and State Security Forces, as well as the obligation to develop acontinuous dialogue with the institutions they represent to foster the feeling of belonging to them.It is essential, regardless of the serious consequences that the virus has caused, to understand thepsychosocial and emotional demands of enforcement agents and to improve their occupational health.
PB MDPI
SN 1660-4601
YR 2020
FD 2020-12
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/19114
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/19114
LA eng
NO Lázaro Pérez, C., Martínez López, J. Á., Gómez Galán, J., & Fernández Martínez, M. del M. (2020). COVID-19 Pandemic and Death Anxiety in Security Forces in Spain. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(21), 7760. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17217760
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 15 jun 2026