Lessons learned from the COVID‐19 pandemic

Khoo, Erwin Jiayuan; Lantos, John D.

doi:10.1111/apa.15307

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“…Most countries reacted to the outbreak with recommendations of social distancing (Gharebaghi et al, 2020), and some countries even enacted total self-quarantine (Qiu et al, 2020). Thus, in addition to direct illness-related effects, the COVID-19 pandemic affected most aspects of everyday life in the form of limited freedom of movement (Khoo and Lantos, 2020), increased isolation (Hellewell et al, 2020), and a risk or realized layoff or unemployment (Kawohl and Nordt, 2020). Although preventive actions and medical treatments undoubtedly have the highest priority during the outbreak, the mental consequences of the pandemic on the population are also pivotal.…”

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Beginning of the Pandemic: COVID-19-Elicited Anxiety as a Predictor of Working Memory Performance

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Increasing evidence indicates that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is associated with adverse psychological effects, including heightened levels of anxiety. This study examined whether COVID-19-related anxiety levels during the early stage of the pandemic predicted demanding working memory (WM) updating performance. Altogether, 201 healthy adults (age range, 18–50) mostly from North America and the British Isles were recruited to this study via the crowdsourcing site www.prolific.co. The results showed that higher levels of COVID-19-related anxiety during the first weeks of the pandemic outbreak were associated with poorer WM performance as measured by the n-back paradigm. Critically, the unique role of COVID-19-related anxiety on WM could not be explained by demographic factors, or other psychological factors such as state and trait anxiety or fluid intelligence. Moreover, across three assessment points spanning 5–6 weeks, COVID-19-related anxiety levels tended to decrease over time. This pattern of results may reflect an initial psychological “shock wave” of the pandemic, the cognitive effects of which may linger for some time, albeit the initial anxiety associated with the pandemic would change with habituation and increasing information. Our results contribute to the understanding of cognitive–affective reactions to a major disaster.

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“…We also experienced that many doctors, nurses, and health-workers fell victim to the pandemic. Thus, we can pledge for the exclusive treatment for healthcare workers, technicians, and security personnel who risk their lives as front liners ( Khoo and Lantos, 2020 ). Equivalently, we can identify and provide maintenance to the pivotal elements of the process safety systems.…”

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How can process safety and a risk management approach guide pandemic risk management?

Alauddin

Khan

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Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

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The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) brought the world to a halt in March 2020. Various prediction and risk management approaches are being explored worldwide for decision making. This work adopts an advanced mechanistic model and utilizes tools for process safety to propose a framework for risk management for the current pandemic. A parameter tweaking and an artificial neural network-based parameter learning model have been developed for effective forecasting of the dynamic risk. Monte Carlo simulation was used to capture the randomness of the model parameters. A comparative analysis of the proposed methodologies has been carried out by using the susceptible, exposed, infected, quarantined, recovered, deceased (SEIQRD) model. A SEIQRD model was developed for four distinct locations: Italy, Germany, Ontario, and British Columbia. The learning-based approach resulted in better outcomes among the models tested in the present study. The layer of protection analysis is a useful framework to analyze the effect of different safety measures. This framework is used in this work to study the effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions on pandemic risk. The risk profiles suggest that a stage-wise releasing scenario is the most suitable approach with negligible resurgence. The case study provides valuable insights to practitioners in both the health sector and the process industries to implement advanced strategies for risk assessment and management. Both sectors can benefit from each other by using the mathematical models and the management tools used in each, and, more importantly, the lessons learned from crises.

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“…Moral distress and injury may be associated with perceptions of unjust allocation of ventilators or other scarce resources, inability to provide seemingly necessary treatment (e.g., nebulized medications) due to institutional policy and/or concern for virus transmission, and inability to allow families to visit loved ones (in some cases, even at the end of life). [28,29] Elevated levels of distress might also be attributed to working conditions (e.g., PPE shortages, uncomfortable PPE, and long work hours), fears of becoming infected or transmitting the virus to others, and the stress of treating unstable patients with limited evidence to guide decision-making. [16,30] Furthermore, during the COVID-19 pandemic, HCWs are not only being exposed to novel stressors in the workplace, but also outside the workplace.…”

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Should health care institutions provide job accommodations for health care workers with serious mental health concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Villagran

Malek

Schneider

et al. 2020

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As the Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic continues, increased attention has been given to its mental health impacts on frontline health care workers. There is a consensus, consistent with established standards applicable to the duty to treat, that health care workers who are especially vulnerable to risk of physical harm should be provided job accommodations to reduce their risk of disease exposure, but it is unclear whether health care workers should be provided similar accommodations if their vulnerability relates specifically to mental health concerns. Especially given emerging evidence that the pandemic is taking a heavy toll on the mental health of health care workers, this issue should be included in policy conversations involving support of health care workers and provision of resources to them during the pandemic. Arguments in favor of expanding accommodations to those with mental health concerns include institutions’ ethical duty to protect vulnerable workers and not discriminate against their employees, as well as broader consideration of the consequences of not providing accommodations, both for health care workers and patients.

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Lessons learned from the COVID‐19 pandemic

Cited by 77 publications

References 7 publications

Beginning of the Pandemic: COVID-19-Elicited Anxiety as a Predictor of Working Memory Performance

Beginning of the Pandemic: COVID-19-Elicited Anxiety as a Predictor of Working Memory Performance

How can process safety and a risk management approach guide pandemic risk management?

Should health care institutions provide job accommodations for health care workers with serious mental health concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic?

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