Managing mental health challenges faced by healthcare workers during covid-19 pandemic
Greenberg, Neil ; Docherty, Mary ; Gnanapragasam, Sam ; Wessely, Simon
2020
368
m1211
1-4
epidemic disease ; occupational risks ; stress ; anxiety ; mental health ; health service
Psychosocial risks
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m1211
English
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"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."
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