Greenberg, Neil and Docherty, Mary and Gnanapragasam, Sam and Wessely, Simon (2020) Managing mental health challenges faced by healthcare workers during covid-19 pandemic. BMJ, 368, (m1211), m1211. doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m1211.
External website: https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m1211
The covid-19 pandemic is likely to put healthcare professionals across the world in an unprecedented situation, having to make impossible decisions and work under extreme pressures. These decisions may include how to allocate scant resources to equally needy patients, how to balance their own physical and mental healthcare needs with those of patients, how to align their desire and duty to patients with those to family and friends, and how to provide care for all severely unwell patients with constrained or inadequate resources. This may cause some to experience moral injury or mental health problems.
[See also, MindEd Covid-19 mental health advice]
G Health and disease > Disease by cause (Aetiology) > Communicable / infectious disease > Viral disease / infection > Coronavirus (COVID-19)
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and treatment > Type of care > Mental health care (Psychiatry / Psychology)
T Demographic characteristics > Substance or health care worker / provider
VA Geographic area > International
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