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Young adults' personal concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland: An issue for social concern

Purpose This study focuses on how young adults face the COVID-19 pandemic by investigating their personal concerns about mental well-being, career/studies and economic situation. The authors investigated how young adults' (aged 18–29) personal concerns di...

Years of life lost due to the psychosocial consequences of COVID-19 mitigation strategies based on Swiss data

BACKGROUND: The pandemic caused by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has forced governments to implement strict social mitigation strategies to reduce the morbidity and mortality from acute infections. These strategies, however, carry a significant risk...

Youth Relationships in the Era of COVID-19: A Mixed-Methods Study Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Kenya

Background: Measures to mitigate COVID-19's impact may inhibit development of healthy youth relationships, affecting partnership quality and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) outcomes. Method(s): We conducted a mixed-methods study to understand how COV...

Youth Relationships in the Era of COVID-19: A Mixed-Methods Study Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Kenya

Background: Measures to mitigate COVID-19's impact may inhibit development of healthy youth relationships, affecting partnership quality and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) outcomes. Method(s): We conducted a mixed-methods study to understand how COV...

Young carers in a time of COVID

Worry and mental health in the Covid-19 pandemic: Vulnerability factors in the general Norwegian population

Workplace violence against frontline clinicians in emergency departments during the COVID-19 pandemic

Background. Frontline clinicians working in emergency departments (ED) were at disportionate risk of workplace violence (WPV). We investigated the prevalence of WPV and its relationship with quality of life (QOL) in this group of health professionals in C...

Working in the Times of COVID-19. Psychological Impact of the Pandemic in Frontline Workers in Spain

This study evaluates the psychological impact (PI) of the COVID-19 pandemic in frontline workers in Spain. Participants were 546 workers (296 healthcare workers, 105 media professionals, 89 grocery workers, and 83 protective service workers). They all com...

Work-Related and Personal Factors Associated With Mental Well-Being During the COVID-19 Response: Survey of Health Care and Other Workers

Background: The response to the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has created an unprecedented disruption in work conditions. This study describes the mental health and well-being of workers both with and without clinic...

Work coping, stress appraisal, and psychological resilience: Reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic among health care providers

Objective: This study examined the relationship between perceived stress appraisals and coping style during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting distress reaction and effects on work engagement. Method: The sample (N = 423) was 78.6% female with average age a...

Women's Substance Use and Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Purpose: Women are experiencing greater unemployment and increased stress from childcare responsibilities than men during the COVID-19 pandemic. Women with these experiences may be at particular risk for mental illness and increased substance use during t...

Workplace violence and its association with quality of life among mental health professionals in China during the COVID-19 pandemic

Objective: Mental health professionals are often exposed to workplace violence (WPV) in China. This study examined the prevalence of WPV and the associated factors and quality of life (QOL) among frontline mental health professionals during the COVID-19 p...

Workplace Violence Against Physicians Treating COVID-19 Patients in Peru: A Cross-Sectional Study

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented challenge to health systems that has revealed shortcomings and increased unmet demands. Such situations might exacerbate workplace violence (WPV) against physicians, as has been reported in several par...

Workplace Violence Against Chinese Frontline Clinicians During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Associations With Demographic and Clinical Characteristics and Quality of Life: A Structural Equation Modeling Investigation

Background: Workplace violence is a major concern for clinicians worldwide. There has been little data on the epidemiology of workplace violence against frontline clinicians during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study examined the pattern of workplace violen...

Work engagement and psychological distress of health professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic

Aims: To describe the level of work engagement of active health care professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic, and its relationship with psychological distress according to the professional category. Background: Health care professionals working on the ...

Women's mental health: acute impact of COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic created a situation of general distress. Although the focus has been initially more on the physical health during the pandemic, mental health concerns linked to the lockdown have quickly risen. This study a...

Women's Mental Health Services and Pregnancy: A Review

Importance The importance of women's mental health services is becoming more evident as we learn more about the impact of mental health on maternal and perinatal outcomes. Objective The purpose of this review is to identify the importance of mental health...

Women worry about family, men about the economy: Gender differences in emotional responses to COVID-19

Among the critical challenges around the COVID-19 pandemic is dealing with the potentially detrimental effects on people’s mental health. Designing appropriate interventions and identifying the concerns of those most at risk requires methods that can extr...

'Why are you not dead yet?' - dimensions and the main driving forces of stigma and discrimination among COVID-19 patients in Sri Lanka

Objectives: To explore the experiences, and main driving forces of stigma and discrimination among COVID-19 patients, following hospital discharge, in Sri Lanka. Study design: A qualitative study was used in order to gain insight and explore the depth and...

When health care workers became patients with COVID-19: A qualitative study

Aims: This study aimed to describe the experiences of nurses and other health care workers who were infected with coronavirus disease 2019. Methods: An empirical phenomenological approach was used. Sixteen participants were recruited in Wuhan using purpos...