ArticlePloS one2022
The psychological distress and suicide-related ideation in hospital workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: Second results from repeated cross-sectional surveys.
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- Global Overview of Suicidal Behavior and Risk Factors among General Population during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review and a Meta-Regression.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2025Pooled it
- Factors associated with suicidal ideation in healthcare personnel: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Risk-Adjusted Inpatient Falls as Indicators of Health System Performance During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- General and event-related psychological stress, and suicidal ideation among hospital workers during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: Findings from the third wave of repeated cross-sectional studies.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2025Article
- Suicidality Among Healthcare Workers in Lebanon: Associations With Childhood Adversities Amid Recent Overlapping Crises.International journal of public health · 2025Article
- The impact of perfectionism on suicidal ideation among medical residents in Iran: the mediating role of psychological distress.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Psychological distress among individuals with a suicide attempt or suicidal ideation and suicide attempts patterns: first two years of the pandemic.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Association of fear of COVID-19 and resilience with psychological distress among health care workers in hospitals responding to COVID-19: analysis of a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has been affecting the mental health of hospital workers. During the prolonged pandemic, hospital workers may experience much more severe psychological distress, leading to an increased risk of suicide. This study aimed to investigate changes in psychological effects on hospital workers over 12 months from the beginning of the pandemic and clarify factors associated with psychological distress and suicide-related ideation 1-year after the pandemic's beginning. These repeated, cross-sectional surveys collected demographic, mental health, and stress-related data from workers in 2 hospitals in Yokohama, Japan. The first survey, conducted in March-April 2020, contained the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) assessing general distress and the Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R) assessing event-related distress. In the second survey in March 2021, hospital workers at the same two hospitals were reassessed using the same questionnaire, and Item 9 of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) was added to assess their suicide-related ideation. The findings of the first and second surveys revealed that the average score of GHQ-12 (3.08 and 3.73, respectively), the IES-R total score (6.8 and 12.12, respectively), and the prevalence rates of severe general distress (35.0% and 44.0%, respectively) and severe event-related distress (7.0% and 17.1%, respectively) deteriorated. The second survey showed that 8.6% of the hospital workers were experiencing suicide-related ideation. Both the general and event-related distress were associated with suicide-related ideation. In these surveys, mental health outcomes among the hospital workers deteriorated over one year from the pandemic's beginning, and their severe psychological distress was the risk factor for the suicide-related ideation. Further studies are needed to compare the psychological effects on hospital workers during and after the prolonged pandemic and to explore appropriate measures to support hospital workers' mental health.
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