SynthesisFrontiers in psychology2022
Effects of COVID-19 pandemic on mental health among frontline healthcare workers: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- The prevalence of stress during the COVID-19 pandemic: an umbrella review.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- An umbrella review of the prevalence of depression during the COVID-19 pandemic: Call to action for post-COVID-19 at the global level.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- Estimation of the prevalence of anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic: A meta-analysis of meta-analyses.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- Perinatal depression and its associated risk factors during the COVID-19 pandemic in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2024Pooled it
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- What are effective strategies to respond to the psychological impacts of working on the frontlines of a public health emergency?Frontiers in public health · 2023Pooled it
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- Assessing the Relationship Between Work-Related Factors and Mental Health in Public Health Doctors During National Health Emergencies.Journal of Korean medical science · 2026Article
- Long-term psychological outcomes among frontline healthcare workers following the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review.World journal of critical care medicine · 2026Article
- How people evaluate anti-corona measures II-Lessons for future crises from a longitudinal study and qualitative analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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- Emotional distress during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic-large sample serbian study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Fostering Workforce Wellness: Insights from Nurse Managers and Early Childhood Educators.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Changing Trends in the Mental Health Status of Healthcare Workers at COVID-19 Wards Three Years After the COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak in Saudi Arabia.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2025Article
- Trusting in times of the COVID-19 crisis: Workplace and government trust and depressive symptoms among healthcare workers.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2025Article
- Longitudinal Insights into the Mental Health of Healthcare Workers: Emotional Shifts During Two Years of the COVID-19 Crisis.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Anxiety and stress among Vietnamese health workers during the emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant: a cross-sectional study.Journal of medicine and life · 2024Article
- Primary healthcare nurses' experiences in managing chronic diseases during COVID-19 in the North West province.African journal of primary health care & family medicine · 2024Article
- What Mattered Most: Personal, Work-Related, and Psychopathological Characteristics Associated with Healthcare Workers' Impairment of Functioning during COVID-19.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
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Abstract
Background: As some countries announced to remove Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) border, it indicates that the COVID-19 may have entered its terminal stage. In this COVID-19 pandemic, the mental health of frontline healthcare workers (HCWs) experienced unprecedented challenges. However, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health among frontline HCWs lacks a high-quality and long-term systematic review and meta-analysis. Methods: We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis according to PRISMA guidelines. The system searches EMBASE, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, Cochrane Library, ScienceNet, and ERIC. Analyze the mental health problems of frontline HCWs in different regions and periods, including insomnia, stress, anxiety and depression. This study was registered in PROSPERO under the number CRD42021253821. Results: A total of 19 studies on the effects of COVID-19 pandemic on mental health among frontline HCWs were included in this study. The overall prevalence of insomnia was 42.9% (95% CI, 33.9-51.9%, Conclusions: This systematic review and meta-analysis showed that the COVID-19 pandemic have significant effects on mental health among frontline HCWs. The overall prevalence of insomnia, stress, anxiety and depression among frontline HCWs is high. Therefore, the health policy-makers should pay attention to and respond to the mental health problems of frontline HCWs in the context of public health emergencies. Systematic review registration: https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/.
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