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Psychosocial risks emerged from COVID-19 pandemic and workers’ mental health
This paper examines the impact of work in a pandemic context on workers’ mental health. Psychosocial risks have always been a challenging aspect of workplace health and safety practices. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected workplaces in all sectors causing unexpected changes in work organiz...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10254389/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37303891 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1148634 |
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author | Koren, Helena Milaković, Marina Bubaš, Marija Bekavac, Petra Bekavac, Barbara Bucić, Lovro Čvrljak, Jelena Capak, Magdalena Jeličić, Pavle |
author_facet | Koren, Helena Milaković, Marina Bubaš, Marija Bekavac, Petra Bekavac, Barbara Bucić, Lovro Čvrljak, Jelena Capak, Magdalena Jeličić, Pavle |
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description | This paper examines the impact of work in a pandemic context on workers’ mental health. Psychosocial risks have always been a challenging aspect of workplace health and safety practices. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected workplaces in all sectors causing unexpected changes in work organization and working conditions, leading to the emergence of new psychosocial risks for health and wellbeing of workers. This mini-review aims to identify the main work stressors during pandemic period and related mental health problems to suggest recommendations and adjust health and safety practices regarding workplace mental health. A literature search has been performed using MEDLINE/PubMed, ResearchGate and Google Scholar databases, selecting articles focusing on work-related stressors and workers’ mental health problems related to the pandemic. Specific psychosocial risks have been identified, including fear of contagion, telework-related risks, isolation and stigmatization, rapid digitalization demands, job insecurity, elevated risk of violence at work or home, and work-life imbalance, among others. All those risks can lead to elevated levels of stress among workers and affect their mental health and wellbeing, especially in terms of psychological distress, anxiety, and depression. As one of the social determinants of health, the workplace has an important and moderating role in workers’ health. Therefore, in the pandemic context more than ever health protection practices at the workplace should be devoted to mental health problems. Recommendations provided in this study are expected to contribute to workplace practices to preserve and promote workers’ mental health. |
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spelling | pubmed-102543892023-06-10 Psychosocial risks emerged from COVID-19 pandemic and workers’ mental health Koren, Helena Milaković, Marina Bubaš, Marija Bekavac, Petra Bekavac, Barbara Bucić, Lovro Čvrljak, Jelena Capak, Magdalena Jeličić, Pavle Front Psychol Psychology This paper examines the impact of work in a pandemic context on workers’ mental health. Psychosocial risks have always been a challenging aspect of workplace health and safety practices. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected workplaces in all sectors causing unexpected changes in work organization and working conditions, leading to the emergence of new psychosocial risks for health and wellbeing of workers. This mini-review aims to identify the main work stressors during pandemic period and related mental health problems to suggest recommendations and adjust health and safety practices regarding workplace mental health. A literature search has been performed using MEDLINE/PubMed, ResearchGate and Google Scholar databases, selecting articles focusing on work-related stressors and workers’ mental health problems related to the pandemic. Specific psychosocial risks have been identified, including fear of contagion, telework-related risks, isolation and stigmatization, rapid digitalization demands, job insecurity, elevated risk of violence at work or home, and work-life imbalance, among others. All those risks can lead to elevated levels of stress among workers and affect their mental health and wellbeing, especially in terms of psychological distress, anxiety, and depression. As one of the social determinants of health, the workplace has an important and moderating role in workers’ health. Therefore, in the pandemic context more than ever health protection practices at the workplace should be devoted to mental health problems. Recommendations provided in this study are expected to contribute to workplace practices to preserve and promote workers’ mental health. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-05-26 /pmc/articles/PMC10254389/ /pubmed/37303891 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1148634 Text en Copyright © 2023 Koren, Milaković, Bubaš, Bekavac, Bekavac, Bucić, Čvrljak, Capak and Jeličić. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Koren, Helena Milaković, Marina Bubaš, Marija Bekavac, Petra Bekavac, Barbara Bucić, Lovro Čvrljak, Jelena Capak, Magdalena Jeličić, Pavle Psychosocial risks emerged from COVID-19 pandemic and workers’ mental health |
title | Psychosocial risks emerged from COVID-19 pandemic and workers’ mental health |
title_full | Psychosocial risks emerged from COVID-19 pandemic and workers’ mental health |
title_fullStr | Psychosocial risks emerged from COVID-19 pandemic and workers’ mental health |
title_full_unstemmed | Psychosocial risks emerged from COVID-19 pandemic and workers’ mental health |
title_short | Psychosocial risks emerged from COVID-19 pandemic and workers’ mental health |
title_sort | psychosocial risks emerged from covid-19 pandemic and workers’ mental health |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10254389/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37303891 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1148634 |
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