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What Will Be the Impact of the COVID-19 Quarantine on Psychological Distress? Considerations Based on a Systematic Review of Pandemic Outbreaks

The novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and related syndrome (COVID-19) has led to worldwide measures with severe consequences for millions of people. In the light of the psychopathological consequences of restrictive measures detected during previous outbreak...

What should be done to support the mental health of healthcare staff treating COVID-19 patients?

There is an urgent need to provide evidence-based well-being and mental health support for front-line clinical staff managing the COVID-19 pandemic who are at risk of moral injury and mental illness. We describe the evidence base for a tiered model of car...

Violence against women in Tunisia: Post-traumatic stress disorder and COVID-19 pandemic impact

Introduction: The pandemic caused by COVID-19 has been an exceptional universal social, psychological and health emergency. Quarantine measures adopted to contain this infection may prompt episodes of aggressionspecially against women who are already vict...

Trauma and stressor-related disorders among health care workers during COVID-19 pandemic and the role of the gender: A prospective longitudinal survey

Introduction: Health-care Workers (HCW) are facing a critical situation caused by Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) which could impact on their mental health status. In addition, HCW women have been identified as a group at high-risk of developing psych...

The psychological impact of the coronavirus disease pandemic on hospital workers in Daegu, South Korea

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to assess the immediate stress and psychological impact experienced by healthcare workers and other personnel during the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic., METHOD: The sample consisted of 2554 hospital workers (i.e., phy...

The Psychological Experience and Intervention in Post-Acute COVID-19 Inpatients

PURPOSE: COVID-19 patients faced first-hand the life-threatening consequences of the disease, oftentimes involving prolonged hospitalization in isolation from family and friends. This study aimed at describing the psychological intervention to address the...

The long psychological shadow of COVID-19 upon healthcare workers: A global concern for action

Introduction: : The outbreak of COVID-19 has posed unprecedented psychological pressure upon every National Health Service in the world. In Piedmont, one of the most affected areas in Italy, 4550 healthcare workers were assessed online in May-June 2020, a...

The interplay between acute post-traumatic stress, depressive and anxiety symptoms on healthcare workers functioning during the COVID-19 emergency: A multicenter study comparing regions with increasing pandemic incidence

Background: Healthcare workers (HCWs) deployed to the frontline during the COVID-19 pandemic are at risk for developing mental disorders, with a possible impact on their wellbeing and functioning. The present study aimed at investigating post-traumatic st...

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on eating disorders: A paradigm for an emotional post-traumatic stress model of eating disorders

The impact of COVID-19 on the wellbeing of the UK nursing and midwifery workforce during the first pandemic wave: A longitudinal survey study

Background: The specific challenges experienced by the nursing and midwifery workforce in previous pandemics have exacerbated pre-existing professional and personal challenges, and triggered new issues. We aimed to determine the psychological impact of th...

The impact of COVID-19 and experiences of secondary traumatic stress and burnout

Objective: This study examines the relationships between multiple COVID-19 related stressors and experiences of secondary traumatic stress (STS) and burnout (BO). Method: This sample (N = 550) of professionals and caregivers from a foster care system in t...

The effects of COVID-19 and collective identity trauma (intersectional discrimination) on social status and well-being

To understand how the COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately affecting minorities’ victims of discrimination, we examined its impact as traumatic stress, coupled with intersected discriminations, on socioeconomic status and well-being. We used previously...

The Effect of COVID-19 on Youth Mental Health

The purposes of this study was to assess the youth mental health after the coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) occurred in China two weeks later, and to investigate factors of mental health among youth groups. A cross-sectional study was conducted two weeks...

The association between sleep and psychological distress among New York City healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

Background: Healthcare workers (HCWs) treating patients with COVID-19 report psychological distress. We examined whether disturbed sleep was associated with psychological distress in New York City (NYC) HCWs during the initial peak of the COVID-19 pandemi...

The Acute Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Children’s Mental Health in Southwestern Ontario

Objective: COVID-19 is an unprecedented global crisis. Research is critically needed to identify the acute and long-term impacts of the pandemic to children’s mental health including psychosocial factors that predict resilience, recovery, and persistent l...

Supporting Hospital Staff During COVID-19:  Early Interventions

There has been a rush in many countries to offer psychological support for hospital staff. There is evidence, however, that certain types of early intervention may be unhelpful and could even worsen mental health outcomes . The quantity, and quality, of ...

SARS control and psychological effects of quarantine, Toronto, Canada

As a transmissible infectious disease, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was successfully contained globally by instituting widespread quarantine measures. Although these measures were successful in terminating the outbreak in all areas of the worl...

Relationship between childhood trauma, functioning, and COVID-19 related worries in bipolar disorder

Introduction: Building upon prior research indicating a varied impact of COVID-19 on bipolar disorder (BD) and a link between childhood trauma history and perception of COVID-19 risk, this study explored the relationship between (1) childhood trauma histo...

Rapid assessment of mental health of Detroit-area health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic may adversely impact the mental health of health care workers (HCWs). To address this issue, it is essential to determine levels of anxiety, depression, and traumatic stress, and sources of stress, and to identify subgrou...

Racism, Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms, and Racial Disparity in the U.S. COVID-19 Syndemic

The COVID-19 syndemic, with a disproportionately higher adverse impact on communities of color (i.e., COVID-19 infection and death), will likely exacerbate the existing health disparities in trauma-related symptoms between people of color (POC) and White ...