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Pharmacists’ Mental Health during the First Two Years of the Pandemic: A Socio-Ecological Scoping Review

Healthcare workers have been under a great deal of stress and have been experiencing burnout throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Among these, healthcare workers are pharmacists who have been instrumental in the fight against the pandemic. This scoping review examined the impact of the pandemic on phar...

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Autores principales: Ishaky, Liam, Sivanthan, Myuri, Tadrous, Mina, Nowrouzi-Kia, Behdin, McCarthy, Lisa, Papadopoulos, Andrew, Gohar, Basem
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10141393/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37104070
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy11020064
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author Ishaky, Liam
Sivanthan, Myuri
Tadrous, Mina
Nowrouzi-Kia, Behdin
McCarthy, Lisa
Papadopoulos, Andrew
Gohar, Basem
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description Healthcare workers have been under a great deal of stress and have been experiencing burnout throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Among these, healthcare workers are pharmacists who have been instrumental in the fight against the pandemic. This scoping review examined the impact of the pandemic on pharmacists’ mental health and their antecedents using three databases (CINAHL, MEDLINE, and PsycINFO). Eligible studies included primary research articles that examined the mental health antecedents and outcomes among pharmacists during the first two years of the pandemic. We used the Social Ecological Model to categorize antecedents per outcome. The initial search yielded 4165 articles, and 23 met the criteria. The scoping review identified pharmacists experiencing poor mental health during the pandemic, including anxiety, burnout, depression, and job stress. In addition, several individual, interpersonal, organizational, community, and policy-level antecedents were identified. As this review revealed a general decline in pharmacists’ mental health during the pandemic, further research is required to understand the long-term impacts of the pandemic on pharmacists. Furthermore, we recommend practical mitigation strategies to improve pharmacists’ mental health, such as implementing crisis/pandemic preparedness protocols and leadership training to foster a better workplace culture.
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spelling pubmed-101413932023-04-29 Pharmacists’ Mental Health during the First Two Years of the Pandemic: A Socio-Ecological Scoping Review Ishaky, Liam Sivanthan, Myuri Tadrous, Mina Nowrouzi-Kia, Behdin McCarthy, Lisa Papadopoulos, Andrew Gohar, Basem Pharmacy (Basel) Review Healthcare workers have been under a great deal of stress and have been experiencing burnout throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Among these, healthcare workers are pharmacists who have been instrumental in the fight against the pandemic. This scoping review examined the impact of the pandemic on pharmacists’ mental health and their antecedents using three databases (CINAHL, MEDLINE, and PsycINFO). Eligible studies included primary research articles that examined the mental health antecedents and outcomes among pharmacists during the first two years of the pandemic. We used the Social Ecological Model to categorize antecedents per outcome. The initial search yielded 4165 articles, and 23 met the criteria. The scoping review identified pharmacists experiencing poor mental health during the pandemic, including anxiety, burnout, depression, and job stress. In addition, several individual, interpersonal, organizational, community, and policy-level antecedents were identified. As this review revealed a general decline in pharmacists’ mental health during the pandemic, further research is required to understand the long-term impacts of the pandemic on pharmacists. Furthermore, we recommend practical mitigation strategies to improve pharmacists’ mental health, such as implementing crisis/pandemic preparedness protocols and leadership training to foster a better workplace culture. MDPI 2023-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10141393/ /pubmed/37104070 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy11020064 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Nowrouzi-Kia, Behdin
McCarthy, Lisa
Papadopoulos, Andrew
Gohar, Basem
Pharmacists’ Mental Health during the First Two Years of the Pandemic: A Socio-Ecological Scoping Review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10141393/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37104070
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy11020064
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