We all know the COVID-19 pandemic created huge level of mental stress, agony , trauma among the front line health care providers themselves and also around their peers and family members. . In order to go for assessing the level of mental stress among the front line health workers during COVID-19 period at any point in time scale which scale and parameter is more appropriate and suggested from the social science community who have already experienced in doing such work during COVID time . Your knowledge base view is very much appreciated .
Thanks in advance to all your thoughts .
Dear Prof. Akhter!
I find your question to be important, so I did search for articles you might benefit from:
1) Abbas, S., AL-Abrrow, H., Abdullah, H.O. et al. Encountering Covid-19 and perceived stress and the role of a health climate among medical workers. Curr Psychol (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-01381-8 Open access:
Article Encountering Covid-19 and perceived stress and the role of a...
2) A case-study from France: Lange, M., Joo, S., Couette, PA. et al. Impact on mental health of the COVID-19 outbreak among general practitioners during the sanitary lockdown period. Ir J Med Sci (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11845-021-02513-6, Open access: lcsu Article Impact on mental health of the COVID-19 outbreak among gener...
3) Son Chae Kim (2021). Predictors of poor mental health among nurses during COVID‐19 pandemic, NursingOpen, Volume 8, Issue 2, March 2021, Open access:
Article Predictors of poor mental health among nurses during COVID‐19 pandemic
4) A case-study: Chowdhury, S.R., Sunna, T.C., Das, D.C. et al. Mental health symptoms among the nurses of Bangladesh during the COVID-19 pandemic. Middle East Curr Psychiatry 28, 23 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s43045-021-00103-x, Open access: Article Mental health symptoms among the nurses of Bangladesh during...
5) Amal M. Qasem Surrati SBFM et al. (2020). Psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on health care workers, Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences, Volume 15, Issue 6, December 2020, Pages 536-543, Open access: Preprint psycho impact of COvid 19
6) Viswa Chaitanya Chandu et al. (2020). Measuring the impact of COViD-19 on Mental Health: A Scoping Review of the existing Scales, Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine | Volume 42 | Issue 5, Open access:
Article Measuring the Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health: A Scoping...
Yours sincerely, Bulcsu Szekely
As the pandemic continue and the waves are almost overlapping, I think it would difficult to evaluate mental health status accurately, esp. long term effects.
Kindly check the following links:
Anxiety in Frontline and Non-Frontline Healthcare Providers in Kelantan, Malaysia
Article Anxiety in Frontline and Non-Frontline Healthcare Providers ...
The psychological impact of COVID-19 and other viral epidemics on frontline healthcare workers and ways to address it: A rapid systematic review:
Article The psychological impact of COVID-19 and other viral epidemi...
Comparison of Psychological Stress Levels and Associated Factors Among Healthcare Workers, Frontline Workers, and the General Public During the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.583971/full
Although the rate of spread as well as death rate has reduced in so many regions which will directly affect the mental health of health workers in those regions positively unlike the period of high death rate. But then i still believe that it might be quite difficult to accurately carry out this evaluation