ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
Benefits of Expressive Writing on Healthcare Workers' Psychological Adjustment During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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- Addressing Health Care Workers' Mental Health: A Systematic Review of Evidence-Based Interventions and Current Resources.American journal of public health · 2024Pooled it
- The impact of emotional support on healthcare workers and students coping with COVID-19, and other SARS-CoV pandemics - a mixed-methods systematic review.BMC health services research · 2023Pooled it
- Individual-level interventions for reducing occupational stress in healthcare workers.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- The effectiveness of psychological support interventions for those exposed to mass infectious disease outbreaks: a systematic review.BMC psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Linguistic Predictors of Psychological Adjustment in Healthcare Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Trial
- The Use of Expressive Writing in Healthcare Professionals: A Systematic Review of Quantitative Studies.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Expressive Writing and Self-Care in Palliative Care Professionals: A Qualitative Longitudinal Study.Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings · 2026Article
- Impact and resiliency of the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare providers and their household members.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Mental Health and Work: A Systematic Review of the Concept.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Responding to the call of the NHS Nightingale, but at what cost? An auto-ethnography of a volunteer frontline mental health trainer's experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of health psychology · 2024Article
- The Up-Side of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Are Core Belief Violation and Meaning Making Associated with Post-Traumatic Growth?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Social Environment and Attitudes toward COVID-19 Anti-Contagious Measures: An Explorative Study from Italy.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- A thematic analysis of shared experiences of essential health and support personnel in the COVID-19 pandemic.PloS one · 2023Article
- Does resilience mediate the association between mental health symptoms and linguistic markers of trauma processing? Analyzing the narratives of women survivors of intimate partner violence.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- An accumulation of distress: Grief, loss, and isolation among healthcare providers during the COVID-19 pandemic.SSM. Mental health · 2022Article
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- Effectiveness of online expressive writing in reducing psychological distress among the asymptomatic COVID-19 patients in Fangcang Hospitals: A quasi-experiment study.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Feasibility, acceptability, and potential effectiveness of an online expressive writing intervention for COVID-19 resilience.Complementary therapies in clinical practice · 2021Article
- Feeling Anxious Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: Factors Associated With Anxiety Symptoms Among Nurses in Hong Kong.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
COVID-19 outbroke in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 and promptly became a pandemic worldwide, endangering health and life but also causing mild-to-severe psychological distress to lots of people, including healthcare workers (HCWs). Several studies have already showed a high prevalence of depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic symptoms in HCWs but less is known about the efficacy of psychological interventions for relieving their mental distress. The aims of this study were: (1) to evaluate the psychological adjustment of Italian HCWs during the COVID-19 pandemic; (2) to investigate the efficacy of an expressive writing (EW) intervention, based on Pennebaker's paradigmatic protocol, on their psychological adjustment; (3) to analyze if outcomes of EW vary in function of individual differences (age, gender, marital status, and baseline values of symptoms). Fifty-five HCWs were randomly assigned to one of two writing conditions: EW (
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