Psychological impact of COVID-19 on radiology: Emotional wellbeing versus psychological burnout

Abstract While the COVID-19 pandemics seem to be crippling the global health care system, it has caused enormous uncertainty and panic in the lives of the health care professionals with a significant impact on their productivity. A significant proportion of these affected health care individuals com...

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Published in:The Indian journal of radiology & imaging 2021-01, Vol.31 (S 01), p.S11-S14
Main Authors: Mahajan, Abhishek, Sharma, Prerit
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Burn out (Psychology)
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Demographic aspects
Disease transmission
Epidemics
Global health
Health aspects
Health care
health care workers
India
Influence
Linings
Mental health
Pandemics
psychological
Psychological aspects
Psychological factors
Public health
Quality of life
radiographers
radiologist
Radiologists
Radiology
residents
Review
Review Article
stress
Well being
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Summary:Abstract While the COVID-19 pandemics seem to be crippling the global health care system, it has caused enormous uncertainty and panic in the lives of the health care professionals with a significant impact on their productivity. A significant proportion of these affected health care individuals comprise of the working staff belonging to the Radiology department. Although the main focus of all health care individuals has constantly been to reduce the number of new cases by minimal transmission, save lives of the infected patients by findings effective cure and carry out meticulous research to develop preventive vaccine, we have been unknowingly giving very little consideration to critical issues relating to the psychological well-being of the front liners. It is of utmost necessity that the psychological impact of this pandemic needs to be recognized and dealt with, in a timely fashion. While planning interventions to fight the pandemic, mental health issues must not be sidelined instead considered pragmatically. The radiology departments must come up with a mitigation plan to combat the subsequent short-term and long-term adverse effects of COVID-19 on mental well-being of their staff members. This article discusses the psychological impact of COVID-19 on the radiology department.
ISSN:0971-3026
0970-2016
1998-3808
0971-3026
DOI:10.4103/ijri.IJRI_579_20