ArticleDepression and anxiety2021
The association between witnessing patient death and mental health outcomes in frontline COVID-19 healthcare workers.
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Potential Benefits of the Somatic Psychoeducational Intervention for Improving the Health and Wellness of Healthcare Providers
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49 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 92 citations in OpenAlex.
- Prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder in healthcare workers before and during COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- Physician Posttraumatic Stress Disorder During COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JAMA network open · 2024Pooled it
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- The impact of COVID-19 on students' anxiety and its clarification: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Pooled it
- A Longitudinal RCT on the Effectiveness of a Psychological Intervention for Hospital Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: What We Learned to Date.Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings · 2025Trial
- The role of sense of coherence in the relationship between posttraumatic stress, depression and anxiety among nurses in South Africa.Journal of health psychology · 2026Article
- Preparing Medical Students for Patient Death: A Pilot Curriculum at Texas A&M College of Medicine.Journal of patient experience · 2026Article
- The impact of core belief disruption on posttraumatic growth and PTSD in healthcare workers: examining the mediating effect of rumination.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Psychometric properties of the Czech moral injury symptom scale.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Workers' Psychological Distress During the Early Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil: A Cross-Sectional Study.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Commonalities and differences in healthcare workers' perceptions of mental burden in Brazil, Colombia, and Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative cross-country study.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Rates of, and factors associated with, common mental disorders in homeworking UK Government response employees' during COVID-19: a cross-sectional survey and secondary data analysis.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Can the Reboot coaching programme support critical care nurses in coping with stressful clinical events? A mixed-methods evaluation assessing resilience, burnout, depression and turnover intentions.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- "They choke to death in front of your very eyes": nurses' lived experiences and perspectives on end-of-life care during COVID-19.BMC palliative care · 2024Article
- Subjective rather than objective patient death experiences link with physicians' and nurses' professional quality of life.BMC nursing · 2024Article
- Knowledge, attitudes and practices towards COVID-19 among healthcare workers: A cross-sectional survey from Kiambu County, Kenya.PloS one · 2024Article
- Inequality on the frontline: A multi-country study on gender differences in mental health among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2024Article
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- Post-traumatic stress symptoms and benefit finding: a longitudinal study among Italian health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2023Article
- Psychological experiences of nurses caring for patients with COVID-19: Integrative review based on qualitative research.Nursing open · 2023Review
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Abstract
backgroundHealthcare workers (HCW) treating coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients face high levels of psychological stress. We aimed to compare mental health outcomes, risk and protective factors for posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), probable depression, and anxiety between HCW working in COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 wards.
methodsA self-report survey, administered in a large tertiary hospital in Israel during the peak of the COVID-19 outbreak was completed by 828 HCW (42.2% physicians, 57.8% nurses. Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System; the Patient Health Questionnaire-9; the Primary Care-Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Screen for DSM-5 (PC-PTSD-5) were used for assessing anxiety, depression, and PTSS, respectively. Pandemic-related stress factors, negative experiences, and potential protective factors were also assessed.
resultsMedian PC-PTSD scores differed significantly between study teams (χ
conclusionsWitnessing patient death appears to be a risk factor for PTSS unique to HCW directly engaged in treating patients with COVID-19. Our findings suggest that helping HCW cope with COVID-19 related deaths might reduce their risk of posttraumatic stress.
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