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January 1, 2020Open Access

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of healthcare professionals

Key Points

Investigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of healthcare professionals.
Analyzed psychological impacts of COVID-19 on healthcare workers
Examined prevalence of anxiety and depression
Considered changes in daily life due to the pandemic
High levels of anxiety reported among healthcare professionals
Increased stress levels observed during the pandemic
Significant rise in depression cases associated with the crisis

Abstract

The 2019 novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) is an international public health emergency unprecedented in modern history 1 . Besides the biological context, and due to the wide and longlasting changes in daily life it may cause, coping with it represents a challenge to psychological resilience. Previous studies have shown that epidemics and contamination outbreaks of diseases have been followed by drastic individual and social psychosocial impacts, which eventually become more pervasive than the epidemic itself 2,3 . Currently, due to this pandemic, high levels of anxiety, stress and depression have already been observed in the general population

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Ornell et al. (Wed,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69dd1b6c3ffc04feac133371 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1590/0102-311x00063520

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