id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-290137-3jyhc63d Szepietowski, Jacek C Mental health status of health care workers during the COVID‐19 outbreak in Poland: one region, two different settings 2020-06-17 .txt text/plain 784 47 56 During the COVID-19 pandemic health care workers (HCW) have been demonstrated to have higher level of anxiety and depression (1) . (2) suggested that HCW of the departments with high-risk contact with SARS-CoV-2 infected patients demonstrated higher mental health impact. Here, we present our data on mental health status of HCW of two various departments, including university department of dermatology, in Wroclaw, Poland, having different settings. They were asked to fill in the following questionnaires: General Anxiety Disorder -7 (GAD-7), Patient Health Questionnaire -9 (PHQ-9) and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Analysing the whole studied group anxiety was suspected among 29.2% (HADS-A) -45% (GAD-7), while depression in 14.2% (HADS-D) -20% (PHQ-9). Anxiety, assessed with HADS-A, and depression, evaluated with PHQ-9, was significantly more prevalent (p<0.01 for both scales) among HCW reporting chronic comorbidities ( Table 2) . ./cache/cord-290137-3jyhc63d.txt ./txt/cord-290137-3jyhc63d.txt