Burnout and psychological distress amongst Australian healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

OBJECTIVE: To examine psychological distress in healthcare workers (HCWs) during the COVID-19 pandemic in April–May 2020. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey examining demographic, employment and mental health characteristics of HCWs in a large metropolitan hospital in Australia. RESULTS: HCWs showed...

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Autores principales: Dobson, Hannah, Malpas, Charles B, Burrell, Aidan JC, Gurvich, Caroline, Chen, Leo, Kulkarni, Jayashri, Winton-Brown, Toby
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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COVID-19 pandemic
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7554409/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33043677
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1039856220965045
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Malpas, Charles B
Burrell, Aidan JC
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Chen, Leo
Kulkarni, Jayashri
Winton-Brown, Toby
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description OBJECTIVE: To examine psychological distress in healthcare workers (HCWs) during the COVID-19 pandemic in April–May 2020. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey examining demographic, employment and mental health characteristics of HCWs in a large metropolitan hospital in Australia. RESULTS: HCWs showed significant symptoms of moderate-severe level depression (21%), anxiety (20%) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD; 29%), associated with burnout, prior psychiatric history, profession and resilience. CONCLUSION: Despite low levels of COVID contact, moderate to high levels of psychological distress were reported. Continued monitoring and support for HCWs’ mental well-being is warranted as the COVID-19 pandemic develops.
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spelling pubmed-75544092020-10-14 Burnout and psychological distress amongst Australian healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic Dobson, Hannah Malpas, Charles B Burrell, Aidan JC Gurvich, Caroline Chen, Leo Kulkarni, Jayashri Winton-Brown, Toby Australas Psychiatry COVID-19 pandemic OBJECTIVE: To examine psychological distress in healthcare workers (HCWs) during the COVID-19 pandemic in April–May 2020. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey examining demographic, employment and mental health characteristics of HCWs in a large metropolitan hospital in Australia. RESULTS: HCWs showed significant symptoms of moderate-severe level depression (21%), anxiety (20%) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD; 29%), associated with burnout, prior psychiatric history, profession and resilience. CONCLUSION: Despite low levels of COVID contact, moderate to high levels of psychological distress were reported. Continued monitoring and support for HCWs’ mental well-being is warranted as the COVID-19 pandemic develops. SAGE Publications 2020-10-12 2021-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7554409/ /pubmed/33043677 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1039856220965045 Text en © The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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