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Covid-19: adverse mental health outcomes for healthcare workers

2020; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/bmj.m1815

1756-1833

Jessica A. Gold,

Long-Term Effects of COVID-19

Frontline medical workers are at risk of not just adverse physical outcomes from coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) but psychological ones too. 1 Data from previous pandemics, particularly after quarantine, suggest that healthcare workers might develop symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and substance use disorders. 2Preliminary data from China and Italy during the covid-19 pandemic offer further evidence; healthcare workers in China reported depression (in 50.3%), anxiety (44.6%), and insomnia (34.0%). 3 4 Concerns about these data are compounded by high rates of pre-existing mental health and substance use disorders in this population, 5 with physicians having rates of suicide among the highest of any profession. 68][9] Less is known about interventions for the mental health of healthcare workers during pandemics.