Open AccessPsychological impact of COVID-19 pandemic on health care professionals and workers
Author(s) -
Abu Bashar,
Ravi Bammidi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
industrial psychiatry journal/industrial psychiatry journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-2795
pISSN - 0972-6748
DOI - 10.4103/ipj.ipj_99_20
Subject(s) - pandemic , isolation (microbiology) , covid-19 , quarantine , outbreak , health care , coronavirus , psychological distress , distress , medicine , psychology , medical emergency , disease , mental health , nursing , psychiatry , virology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , clinical psychology , political science , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , pathology , law
The outbreak of a novel coronavirus starting from December 2019 and reaching pandemic proportions has raised concerns as to the ability of the current protective measures and the health-care system to handle such a threat. Health-care workers may experience considerable psychological distress as a result of the coronavirus disease-19 pandemic due to providing direct patient care, vicarious trauma, quarantine, or self-isolation.