Healthcare workers issues and COVID-19 pandemic: a review
Background: Since December 2019, COVID-19 pandemic has continued to grow it spread and has currently affected more than 200 countries and for the last four months, healthcare workers (HCW) has worked performed their duties endlessly, more than the norms at their respective health care facility. Ther...
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| author | Abd Rahman, Anita Muhamad Saliluddin, Suhainizam Rusli, Mohammad Farhan Pakar Singh, Param Jeeth Singh Mohd Rosli, Norazman Shah, Shamsul Azhar |
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| description | Background: Since December 2019, COVID-19 pandemic has continued to grow it spread and has currently affected more than 200 countries and for the last four months, healthcare workers (HCW) has worked performed their duties endlessly, more than the norms at their respective health care facility. Therefore this review paper aims to describe healthcare workers issues in managing the current COVID-19 pandemic Materials and Methods: Articles were chosen using a structured search via three electronic databases, namely PubMed, Scopus, and Direct Science coupled with
a combination of keywords namely "healthcare workers" OR "health staff" AND "COVID19". Other inclusion criteria include full accessible, original studies in English language, published in peer-reviewed journals from December 2019 till 30th April 2020. Result and Discussion: A total of 17 articles were chosen to be reviewed which can be further broadly categorised into three domains which are; physical effects, psychological effects and socioeconomic effects. COVID-19 infection among healthcare workers is not uncommon as they represent the essential human resources in managing the pandemic. Of the three effects, mental health burden ranging from anxiety to burnout was studied along with its risk and
protective factors discussed. Socioeconomic factors describe how prevention and control measures adopted has given a toll to this vulnerable group. Conclusion: Health-related effects and unforeseen factors has impacted healthcare workers such as the direct effect of the infection, issues related to the use of personal protective equipment, the spectrum of mental health burden as well as the socio-economic effects as a result of the demands faced by them in responding and providing healthcare needs. |
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| spelling | iium-805252021-03-01T08:24:35Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/80525/ Healthcare workers issues and COVID-19 pandemic: a review Abd Rahman, Anita Muhamad Saliluddin, Suhainizam Rusli, Mohammad Farhan Pakar Singh, Param Jeeth Singh Mohd Rosli, Norazman Shah, Shamsul Azhar BF Psychology RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine RA790 Mental Health. Mental Illness Prevention Background: Since December 2019, COVID-19 pandemic has continued to grow it spread and has currently affected more than 200 countries and for the last four months, healthcare workers (HCW) has worked performed their duties endlessly, more than the norms at their respective health care facility. Therefore this review paper aims to describe healthcare workers issues in managing the current COVID-19 pandemic Materials and Methods: Articles were chosen using a structured search via three electronic databases, namely PubMed, Scopus, and Direct Science coupled with a combination of keywords namely "healthcare workers" OR "health staff" AND "COVID19". Other inclusion criteria include full accessible, original studies in English language, published in peer-reviewed journals from December 2019 till 30th April 2020. Result and Discussion: A total of 17 articles were chosen to be reviewed which can be further broadly categorised into three domains which are; physical effects, psychological effects and socioeconomic effects. COVID-19 infection among healthcare workers is not uncommon as they represent the essential human resources in managing the pandemic. Of the three effects, mental health burden ranging from anxiety to burnout was studied along with its risk and protective factors discussed. Socioeconomic factors describe how prevention and control measures adopted has given a toll to this vulnerable group. Conclusion: Health-related effects and unforeseen factors has impacted healthcare workers such as the direct effect of the infection, issues related to the use of personal protective equipment, the spectrum of mental health burden as well as the socio-economic effects as a result of the demands faced by them in responding and providing healthcare needs. Gazi University Medical Faculty 2020-05-19 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/80525/7/80525%20Healthcare%20Workers%20Issues%20and%20COVID-19%20Pandemic.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/80525/13/80525_%20Healthcare%20workers%20issues%20and%20COVID-19%20pandemic%20a%20review_SCOPUS.pdf Abd Rahman, Anita and Muhamad Saliluddin, Suhainizam and Rusli, Mohammad Farhan and Pakar Singh, Param Jeeth Singh and Mohd Rosli, Norazman and Shah, Shamsul Azhar (2020) Healthcare workers issues and COVID-19 pandemic: a review. Gazi Medical Journal, 31 (2A (Special Issue)). pp. 303-308. ISSN 1300-056X E-ISSN 2147-2092 http://www.medicaljournal.gazi.edu.tr/index.php/GMJ/article/view/2469/2127 http://dx.doi.org/10.12996/gmj.2020.75 |
| spellingShingle | BF Psychology RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine RA790 Mental Health. Mental Illness Prevention Abd Rahman, Anita Muhamad Saliluddin, Suhainizam Rusli, Mohammad Farhan Pakar Singh, Param Jeeth Singh Mohd Rosli, Norazman Shah, Shamsul Azhar Healthcare workers issues and COVID-19 pandemic: a review |
| title | Healthcare workers issues and COVID-19 pandemic: a review |
| title_full | Healthcare workers issues and COVID-19 pandemic: a review |
| title_fullStr | Healthcare workers issues and COVID-19 pandemic: a review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Healthcare workers issues and COVID-19 pandemic: a review |
| title_short | Healthcare workers issues and COVID-19 pandemic: a review |
| title_sort | healthcare workers issues and covid-19 pandemic: a review |
| topic | BF Psychology RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine RA790 Mental Health. Mental Illness Prevention |
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