The purpose of the study is to determine the specifics of occupational stress among medical workers in the post-COVID period. Material and methods. The study involved 620 medical workers who worked and are working in the red zone. Questionnaires for susceptibility to stress at work, assessments of occupational maladaptation, occupational stress, occupational stress test, occupational stress scale, K. Pearson's correlation criterion and the Chaddok—Snedekor scale were used. Results. The study has identified the following specific features of occupational stress among medical workers in the post-COVID period: above the average level of sings of somatovegetative disorders (26.05); average level of the general indicator for assessing professional maladaptation (67.66), signs of sleep and wakefulness cycle disturbance (8.36), signs of feeling tired (5.96), signs of decreased motivation for activity (4.25), signs of decreased general activity (5.87), signs of deteriorated well-being (22.18), signs of emotional shifts (7.31), stress at work (9.25), stressful impact of professional activity on a specialist (995), stressful conditions and neuroses (24.91); below the average level of occupational stress (2.37), signs of characteristics of social interaction (6.82), signs of characteristics of individual mental processes (3.04). A noticeable relationship was established between the sign of somatovegetative disorders and the stressful impact of professional activity on a specialist (0.636), and the general indicator of assessing professional maladaptation (0.598), and stress conditions and neuroses (0.582), and the sign of deteriorated well-being (0.573), and stress at work (0.569), signs of disturbed sleep and wakefulness cycle (0.555), emotional shifts (0.542), feelings of fatigue (0.531), decreased overall activity (0.525) and motivation for activity (0.519).

stress, professional stress, workers, healthcare workers, post-COVID period.