COVID-19 Pandemic and the Mental Health of Health Care Workers: Awareness to Action
The enormity of the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has overwhelmed most health services and has placed health care service providers under unprecedented stress. The rapidity of spread, uncertain clinical course, and unavailability of effective treatment make clinical decisions cognitiv...
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| description | The enormity of the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has overwhelmed most health services and has placed health care service providers under unprecedented stress. The rapidity of spread, uncertain clinical course, and unavailability of effective treatment make clinical decisions cognitively demanding. Extended work hours inside uncomfortable protective gears, improper hydration, with conflictual health systems and patients at work; and social stigma and isolation after it ends, have created an unending downward spiral of mental health in care providers. Care providers are at increased risk of developing mental health problems in form of burnout, stress reactions, anxiety, depression, and post trauma stress. Concerted strategies for managing the mental health of care providers are urgently needed at individual and systems level. A plethora of strategies, developed from previous experience of crisis management, need to be made available to care providers through accessible mediums of delivery. This paper explores the mental health problems encountered by health care personnel and examines various strategies which need to be implemented to manage them. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9f1156071405481a8274c08be6f6096e2022-12-21T23:27:32ZengThieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd.Annals of the National Academy of Medical Sciences (India)0379-038X2454-56352020-07-01560317117610.1055/s-0040-1715285COVID-19 Pandemic and the Mental Health of Health Care Workers: Awareness to ActionPallavi Rajhans0Koushik Sinha Deb1Rakesh Kumar Chadda2Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, IndiaDepartment of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, IndiaDepartment of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, IndiaThe enormity of the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has overwhelmed most health services and has placed health care service providers under unprecedented stress. The rapidity of spread, uncertain clinical course, and unavailability of effective treatment make clinical decisions cognitively demanding. Extended work hours inside uncomfortable protective gears, improper hydration, with conflictual health systems and patients at work; and social stigma and isolation after it ends, have created an unending downward spiral of mental health in care providers. Care providers are at increased risk of developing mental health problems in form of burnout, stress reactions, anxiety, depression, and post trauma stress. Concerted strategies for managing the mental health of care providers are urgently needed at individual and systems level. A plethora of strategies, developed from previous experience of crisis management, need to be made available to care providers through accessible mediums of delivery. This paper explores the mental health problems encountered by health care personnel and examines various strategies which need to be implemented to manage them.http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0040-1715285mental healthcovid-19health care workerdepressionstressmanagement |
| spellingShingle | Pallavi Rajhans Koushik Sinha Deb Rakesh Kumar Chadda COVID-19 Pandemic and the Mental Health of Health Care Workers: Awareness to Action Annals of the National Academy of Medical Sciences (India) mental health covid-19 health care worker depression stress management |
| title | COVID-19 Pandemic and the Mental Health of Health Care Workers: Awareness to Action |
| title_full | COVID-19 Pandemic and the Mental Health of Health Care Workers: Awareness to Action |
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| title_short | COVID-19 Pandemic and the Mental Health of Health Care Workers: Awareness to Action |
| title_sort | covid 19 pandemic and the mental health of health care workers awareness to action |
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