Abstract
to identify publishing related to the mental health of health professionals working in the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic. an integrative review that included primary articles indexed in the Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences, Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Scopus, Embase, Web of Science, Science Direct databases and US National Library of Medicine databases. The result analysis was performed descriptively, in four analytical categories. The publishing involved aspects related to insufficient personal protective equipment, feelings of fear and stigma, the need for psychological and psychiatric support and the possibility of post-outbreak mental disorders. All mentioned aspects have a direct impact on the mental health of professionals, demanding the creation of strategies that minimize the emotional burnout of workers, considering that each country and culture reacts differently to the disease.
Highlights
METHODSHuman history has been noted by the impact of many infectious disease pandemics
Health professionals were at high risk of being infected with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and represented more than 20% of those who became infected with the disease[1]
Health professionals who are directly involved in the diagnosis, treatment, and care of patients with COVID-19 are at risk of developing psychological distress and other mental health symptoms
Summary
Human history has been noted by the impact of many infectious disease pandemics. At the beginning of the 21st century, the international community faced a public health emergency, on a global scale, with the spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). As health professionals are directly responsible for the care of infected people and in serious illnesses, they may experience stress when managing disease outbreaks. The mental health of the medical and nursing staff has been greatly challenged during this pandemic, and just as during the SARS outbreak, psychological distress among health professionals, fear and anxiety started immediately and decreased in the early stages of the epidemic, but depression, the psychophysiological symptoms of post-traumatic stress appeared later and lasted for a long time, leading to great impacts. Being isolated, working in high-risk positions and having contact with infected people are common causes of trauma[7]. Facing this situation, health professionals who are directly involved in the diagnosis, treatment, and care of patients with COVID-19 are at risk of developing psychological distress and other mental health symptoms.
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