Open AccessThe Mental Health of Healthcare Staff Working During the COVID-19 Crisis: Their Working Hours as a Boundary Condition
Author(s) -
Haitong Gong,
Stephen X. Zhang,
Khaled Nawaser,
Asghar Afshar Jahanshahi,
Xiaoqing Xu,
Jizhen Li,
Afsaneh Bagheri
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of multidisciplinary healthcare
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.65
H-Index - 30
ISSN - 1178-2390
DOI - 10.2147/jmdh.s297503
Subject(s) - covid-19 , mental health , health care , mental healthcare , medicine , psychiatry , psychology , nursing , virology , pathology , economic growth , outbreak , disease , economics , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Healthcare staff operate at the forefront of the fight against COVID-19 and hence face enormous physical and mental pressures. We aim to investigate healthcare staff's mental health issues and the associated predictors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, this paper aims to identify some unique predictors of healthcare staff's mental health issues in Iran, the second country after China to experience a major COVID-19 crisis.