COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on mental health of healthcare professionals

In light of the unprecedented public health crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is highly important to acknowledge the psychological impact of this mounting threat on healthcare professionals. Previous experience from smaller scale epidemics and emerging literature around COVID-19 show that the unpa...

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Autores principales: Tsamakis, Konstantinos, Rizos, Emmanouil, Manolis, Athanasios J., Chaidou, Sofia, Kympouropoulos, Stylianos, Spartalis, Eleftherios, Spandidos, Demetrios A., Tsiptsios, Dimitrios, Triantafyllis, Andreas S.
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Publicado: D.A. Spandidos 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7185082/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32346406
http://dx.doi.org/10.3892/etm.2020.8646
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author Tsamakis, Konstantinos
Rizos, Emmanouil
Manolis, Athanasios J.
Chaidou, Sofia
Kympouropoulos, Stylianos
Spartalis, Eleftherios
Spandidos, Demetrios A.
Tsiptsios, Dimitrios
Triantafyllis, Andreas S.
author_facet Tsamakis, Konstantinos
Rizos, Emmanouil
Manolis, Athanasios J.
Chaidou, Sofia
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description In light of the unprecedented public health crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is highly important to acknowledge the psychological impact of this mounting threat on healthcare professionals. Previous experience from smaller scale epidemics and emerging literature around COVID-19 show that the unparalleled amount of stress that healthcare workers are dealing with, is associated with increased psychological morbidities. We have depicted the psychological burden that the COVID-19 pandemic has posed on healthcare professionals in Greece and have reviewed the literature around the effect of previous epidemics on frontline healthcare staff. Moreover, we discuss potential triggers and the need for measures to minimise the psychological pressure on those at the frontline against this biothreat.
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spelling pubmed-71850822020-04-28 COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on mental health of healthcare professionals Tsamakis, Konstantinos Rizos, Emmanouil Manolis, Athanasios J. Chaidou, Sofia Kympouropoulos, Stylianos Spartalis, Eleftherios Spandidos, Demetrios A. Tsiptsios, Dimitrios Triantafyllis, Andreas S. Exp Ther Med Articles In light of the unprecedented public health crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is highly important to acknowledge the psychological impact of this mounting threat on healthcare professionals. Previous experience from smaller scale epidemics and emerging literature around COVID-19 show that the unparalleled amount of stress that healthcare workers are dealing with, is associated with increased psychological morbidities. We have depicted the psychological burden that the COVID-19 pandemic has posed on healthcare professionals in Greece and have reviewed the literature around the effect of previous epidemics on frontline healthcare staff. Moreover, we discuss potential triggers and the need for measures to minimise the psychological pressure on those at the frontline against this biothreat. D.A. Spandidos 2020-06 2020-04-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7185082/ /pubmed/32346406 http://dx.doi.org/10.3892/etm.2020.8646 Text en Copyright: © Tsamakis et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) , which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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Spartalis, Eleftherios
Spandidos, Demetrios A.
Tsiptsios, Dimitrios
Triantafyllis, Andreas S.
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