Psychological Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Health Care Workers in Singapore

By B. Tan, Nicholas W. S. Chew, G. K. Lee, M. Jing, Y. Goh, L. Yeo, Ka Zhang, H. Chin, Aftab Ahmad, F. Khan and 14 more. Annals of Internal Medicine, 2020

1,110 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Psychological Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Health Care Workers in Singapore Background: In response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, Singapore raised its Disease Outbreak Response System Condition alert to “orange,” the second highest level. Between 19 February and 13 March 2020, confirmed cases rose from 84 to 200 (34.2 per 1 000 000 population), with an increase in patients in critical condition from 4 to 11 (5.5%) and no reported deaths in Singapore (1). Understanding the psychological impact of the COVID-19 outbreak among health care workers is crucial in guiding policies and interventions to maintain their psychological well-being. Objective: To examine the psychological distress, depression, anxiety, and stress experienced by health care workers in Singapore in the midst of the outbreak, and to compare these between medically and non–medically trained hospital personnel. Methods and Findings: From 19 February to 13 March 2020, health care workers from 2 major tertiary institutions in Singapore who were caring for patients with COVID-19 were invited to participate with a self-administered questionnaire. LETTERS

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology

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1. J. D. De Kock
2. Nicholas W. S. Chew
3. G. K. Lee
4. H. Latham
5. S. Leslie
6. M. Jing
7. B. Tan
8. M. Grindle

Citations in the corpus

• A rapid review of the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of healthcare workers: implications for supporting psychological well-being (2020, background): “Eighteen of the studies were from China, of which 8 were based in Wuhan, where the COVID-19 outbreak began.”
• A multinational, multicentre study on the psychological outcomes and associated physical symptoms amongst healthcare workers during COVID-19 outbreak (2020, positive): “We have previously reported that the psychological impact (specifically anxiety) of COVID-19 was more common among nonmedically trained healthcare workers when compared to the medically trained personnel (Tay et al., 2020) .”
• Prevalence of mental health problems during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2020, neutral): “Most of the studies (62 of 66) were for the Chinese population, although there was one each from Iran (Moghanibashi-Mansourieh, 2020), Jordan (Naser et al., 2020), Singapore (Tan et al., 2020), and India (Kazmi, 2020).”