Mental Health in Health Professionals in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Bendau, Antonia; Ströhle, Andreas; Petzold, Moritz Bruno

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-63761-3_41

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“…COVID‐19 epidemic not only aggravated the workload and pressure of medical staff, 60 but also negatively affected the mental state of front‐line medical staff 61–66 . It also magnifies the imbalance between supply and demand of medical resources.…”

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The main features of physician assistants/associates and insights for the development of similar professions in China

Jiang

Zhao

Chen

et al. 2022

J Evidence Based Medicine

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The physician assistant/associate (PA) profession originated in the United States; PAs play an active role in alleviating the shortage of health and medical resources and improving the quality of medical care. This position has been introduced in and developed by many countries. Based on extensive literature research, this article summarizes the three main features of PAs, namely, that there is professional education for training PAs, the PA is an independent and exclusive professional type and PAs assist doctors in completing medical work. With reference to the innovative concept of the PA profession, this article summarized the existing “assistant” position in China that is similar to the PA position, compared it with the three features of PAs, revealed the shortcomings of the existing “assistant” position in China, provided a reference for the development of relevant careers in China, and provided solutions for solving the problems of medical and health resources in China.

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The main features of physician assistants/associates and insights for the development of similar professions in China

Jiang

Zhao

Chen

et al. 2022

J Evidence Based Medicine

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“…It could be assumed that this is related to the reports on COVID-19 during the early days of the pandemic, which suggested that the prevalence of COVID-19 in patients with cancer was high and that cancer patients comprised an at-risk population for COVID-19 [ 1 , 2 ]. Indeed, frequency, duration, and diversity of media exposure are related to COVID-19-asscociated fear in the general population [ 86 ] and cancer patients are likely no exception. Interestingly, however, cancer participants in this study reported shorter screen time (TV, smartphones, laptops) ( Table S1 ) during the study period compared to non-cancer participants; they therefore likely had less exposure to multimedia and scary information compared to non-cancer participants.…”

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Mental Health and Adherence to COVID-19 Protective Behaviors among Cancer Patients during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An International, Multinational Cross-Sectional Study

Kassianos

Georgiou

Kyprianidou

et al. 2021

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A population-based cross-sectional study was conducted during the first COVID-19 wave, to examine the impact of COVID-19 on mental health using an anonymous online survey, enrolling 9565 individuals in 78 countries. The current sub-study examined the impact of the pandemic and the associated lockdown measures on the mental health, and protective behaviors of cancer patients in comparison to non-cancer participants. Furthermore, 264 participants from 30 different countries reported being cancer patients. The median age was 51.5 years, 79.9% were female, and 28% had breast cancer. Cancer participants reported higher self-efficacy to follow recommended national guidelines regarding COVID-19 protective behaviors compared to non-cancer participants (p < 0.01). They were less stressed (p < 0.01), more psychologically flexible (p < 0.01), and had higher levels of positive affect compared to non-cancer participants. Amongst cancer participants, the majority (80.3%) reported COVID-19, not their cancer, as their priority during the first wave of the pandemic and females reported higher levels of stress compared to males. In conclusion, cancer participants appeared to have handled the unpredictable nature of the first wave of the pandemic efficiently, with a positive attitude towards an unknown and otherwise frightening situation. Larger, cancer population specific and longitudinal studies are warranted to ensure adequate medical and psychological care for cancer patients.

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“…Similarly, with respect to cognitive emotion regulation, findings were mixed for different strategies 27,29 and also for single strategies in different studies 24,27 . To our knowledge, only a small share of longitudinal studies compared the predictive value of a broader set of RFs 27,28,30 , with many only investigating different aspects of a single RF and none of the studies focusing on the relationship between RFs or a broader range of stress-related outcomes including positive aspects.…”

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Interrelations of resilience factors and their incremental impact for mental health: Insights from network modeling using a prospective study across seven timepoints

Michael¹,

Fritz²,

Sopp³

et al. 2023

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Resilience as an outcome can be viewed as trajectory of stable good mental health or the quick regain of mental health during or after stressor exposure. Resilience factors (RFs) are psychological resources that buffer the potential negative effects of stress on mental health. A problem of resilience research is the large number of conceptually overlapping RFs complicating their understanding as well as the planning and evaluation of resilience interventions. The current study sheds light on interrelations of RFs in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic as a use case for major disruptions. The prospective study assessed a population sample of 1,275 German-speaking people (Mage=50.06, 51.5% female) from February 2020 to March 2021 at six critical timepoints during the pandemic. We assessed coping, hardiness, control beliefs, optimism, self-efficacy, sense of coherence (SOC), sense of mastery, social support as well as dispositional resilience as psychological RFs in February 2020, and mental health (i.e., psychopathological symptoms, COVID-19-related rumination, stress-related growth) at all timepoints. Analyses used partial correlation network models and LASSO regressions. Pre-pandemic RFs were strongly interrelated with SOC being the most central node. During the pandemic, networks for all outcomes remained stable. Pre-pandemic SOC was the strongest partial correlate of psychopathological symptoms and COVID-19-related rumination, while stress-related growth showed unique associations with positive reframing and optimism. LASSO regressions supported SOC’s incremental validity beyond other RFs for psychopathological symptoms and COVID-19-related rumination, while SOC was unrelated to stress-related growth. Either longitudinally or cross-sectionally, the sum of RFs at most accounted for 39% of the variance in mental health. Our findings provide evidence for SOC playing an important role for mental health and suggest to further examine SOC’s incremental validity. Given the differential associations for negative and positive mental health outcomes, resilience research may benefit from using multidimensional outcomes.

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Mental Health in Health Professionals in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Cited by 15 publications

References 90 publications

The main features of physician assistants/associates and insights for the development of similar professions in China

The main features of physician assistants/associates and insights for the development of similar professions in China

Mental Health and Adherence to COVID-19 Protective Behaviors among Cancer Patients during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An International, Multinational Cross-Sectional Study

Interrelations of resilience factors and their incremental impact for mental health: Insights from network modeling using a prospective study across seven timepoints

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