Prevention of occupational stress in health-care workers during COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19
healthcare workers
occupational stress
Journal
Indian journal of psychiatry
ISSN: 0019-5545
Titre abrégé: Indian J Psychiatry
Pays: India
ID NLM: 0013255
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Sep 2020
Sep 2020
Historique:
received:
10
07
2020
accepted:
31
08
2020
entrez:
23
11
2020
pubmed:
24
11
2020
medline:
24
11
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
In a humanitarian crisis, healthcare workers are on the frontline in providing their services. Despite being crisis management personnel, healthcare workers may get exposed to occupational stress due to unprecedented circumstances, challenges in delivery of high-quality care, lack of resources, and most importantly for being at high risk to suffer from the impact of the situation itself. Therefore, it is imperative to maintain the mental health of healthcare workers on a regular basis and more so during a pandemic like COVID-19. For addressing the occupational stress in healthcare workers, a Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) based intervention is suggested, also supported by a Cochrane review, which can build/ improve/ enhance resilience, needed to shield individuals against the development of psychopathology, at the public health level in humanitarian crises. In addition to developing resilience, which will be helpful in combating anxiety, depression, somatization, and incapacitation, CBT will also help in dealing with the social isolation which has been part and parcel of COVID-19 and similar pandemic situations.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33227042
doi: 10.4103/psychiatry.IndianJPsychiatry_844_20
pii: IJPsy-62-495
pmc: PMC7659789
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
S495-S497Informations de copyright
Copyright: © 2020 Indian Journal of Psychiatry.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
There are no conflicts of interest.
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