Abstract
COVID-19 was a disease emerged in China and quickly became a pandemic. The pandemic has put health professionals under strong pressure. This situation can cause perpetual damage to mental health. Objective: the objective of the study was to conduct a scooping review to investigate the studies already produced on COVID-19's mental impacts on physicians and nurses. Methodology: the mnemonic population, concept and context of the Joanna Briggs Institute was used for a scooping review. Results: two studies carried out in China and three letters to the editors were found addressing mental problems in physicians and nurses. Conclusion: despite being a recent disease, COVID-19 already demonstrates impacts on the mental health of physicians and nurses. Although the articles were made in China, reports from other countries suggest that physicians and nurses around the world are mentally impacted by work during the pandemic, with relates of suicides ideation and suicide cases among nurses in Italy, in England, in USA, in Mexico and in India.
Highlights
The COVID-19 outbreak started in Wuhan, Hubei, China, in December 2019 as a series of pneumonia cases of unknown causes (Huang et al, 2020)
This result is an alert to healthcare managers, hospital managers, public managers and healthcare workers, because, even both articles were from China, we can assume that healthcare professionals, especially physicians and nurses, from all over the world are dealing with the same situation as their Chinese colleagues
If Tian et al (2020) are correct with the suggestion that mental health problems are common among frontline health professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic, and previous studies showed that stress and pressure are natural for this type of work, health care organizations and society must care about their physicians and nurses
Summary
The COVID-19 outbreak started in Wuhan, Hubei, China, in December 2019 as a series of pneumonia cases of unknown causes (Huang et al, 2020). After a deep sequencing analysis, the scientific authorities discovered a novel coronavirus, which rapidly spread to other countries (Huang et al, 2020), changing everyday practices, including public health (Ataguba & Ataguba, 2020) During these times of the COVID-19 outbreak, healthcare professionals were under great pressure. The pandemic place healthcare professionals around the world in an unprecedented position, forcing them to make impossible decisions in a very stressful work environment (Greenberg, Brooks, Wessely, & Tracy, 2020) They were at risk of contracting the virus while trying to save patients’ lives. Along the SARS and the Ebola epidemics, the healthcare workers suffered a lot of pressure, by the increase of workload, physical exhaustion, inadequate personal equipment, and the necessity to make ethically difficult decisions (Liu et al, 2012). The risk of suicide is a subject for attention due the psychological pressure that they have to work (Mc Laughlm, 1994)
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