The impact of previous epidemic disease on mental health in physicians and nurses during COVID-19 pandemic

The importance of mental health before the COVID-19 pandemic was neglected for the past decades, which is the physiological stress that this pandemic imposed on health care providers, especially on physicians and nurses. [...]few studies focused on the effect of previous experience with severe acute...

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Published in:The American journal of emergency medicine 2021-10, Vol.48, p.367-368
Main Authors: Huang, Chien-Tai, Sung, Chih-Wei, Chen, Chi-Hsin, Fan, Cheng-Yi, Liu, Cheng-Heng, Lee, Tony Szu-Hsien, Huang, Edward Pei-Chuan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Anxiety
Anxiety - epidemiology
Anxiety - psychology
Burnout
Burnout, Professional - epidemiology
Burnout, Professional - psychology
Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections - therapy
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
COVID-19 - epidemiology
COVID-19 - therapy
Depressive Disorder - epidemiology
Depressive Disorder - psychology
Disease transmission
Emergency medical care
Emergency Medicine
Epidemics
Female
General Surgery
Gynecology
Health care
Humans
Internal Medicine
Male
Medical personnel
Medicine
Mental depression
Mental Health
Middle Aged
Middle East respiratory syndrome
Middle east respiratory syndrome (MERS)
Nurses
Nurses - psychology
Nurses - statistics & numerical data
Obstetrics
Pandemics
Pediatrics
Physicians
Physicians - psychology
Physicians - statistics & numerical data
Physiology
Respiratory diseases
SARS-CoV-2
Severe acute respiratory syndrome
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome - epidemiology
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome - therapy
Stress
Surveys and Questionnaires
Taiwan - epidemiology
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Summary:The importance of mental health before the COVID-19 pandemic was neglected for the past decades, which is the physiological stress that this pandemic imposed on health care providers, especially on physicians and nurses. [...]few studies focused on the effect of previous experience with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) or middle east respiratory syndrome (MERS) on mental health in physicians and nurses. Variables Total (n = 1421) Without experience (n = 1187) With experience (n = 234) p Age (years) 36.64 ± 8.13 35.25 ± 7.73 43.70 ± 6.21
ISSN:0735-6757
1532-8171
DOI:10.1016/j.ajem.2021.01.082