Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Hong Kong in 2003: stress and psychological impact among frontline healthcare workers

By C. W. Tam, E. Pang, L. Lam, H. Chiu. Psychological Medicine, 2004

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Neurology

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Citations in the corpus

• Fear and Practice Modifications among Dentists to Combat Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Outbreak (2020, background): “Studies on previous outbreaks of similar infectious diseases such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) demonstrated various factors leading to psychological trauma in healthcare workers including the fear of getting infected while treating an infected patient, or infecting a family member [18”
• Long-term psychiatric morbidities among SARS survivors (2009, result): “This observation is consistent with the finding of higher psychiatric morbidity both in the acute and in the convalescent phase among HCWs [7,10,54].”
• The Impact of COVID-19 Epidemic Declaration on Psychological Consequences: A Study on Active Weibo Users (2020, result): “These results are consistent to previous studies as well, which found that public health emergencies (e.g., SARS) triggered a series of stress emotional response containing a higher level of anxiety and other negative emotions [32, 33] .”
• Depression after Exposure to Stressful Events: Lessons Learned from the SARS Epidemic (2011, background): “In these studies, increased SARS-related fear, loss of social support, and increased stigmatization by individuals who now saw these health care workers as more likely, compared even with other health care workers, to be sources of disease infection [34] were found to be aspects of the quarantine ex”
• A multinational, multicentre study on the psychological outcomes and associated physical symptoms amongst healthcare workers during COVID-19 outbreak (2020, neutral): “Studies on the SARS outbreak revealed that healthcare workers experienced acute stress reactions (Tam et al., 2004; Grace et al., 2005) .”
• Long-term Psychological and Occupational Effects of Providing Hospital Healthcare during SARS Outbreak (2006, background): “Significant emotional distress was present in 18%-57% of HCWs (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) and was associated with quarantine (7), fear of contagion (6, 8, 9) , concern for family (5, 9, 10) , job stress (6, 9) , interpersonal isolation (6, 9) , perceived stigma (6, 7, 11) , conscription of nonspecialists in”
• The mental health of healthcare workers in the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review (2020, methodology): “(2004) [30] using the GHQ-12 questionnaire, found that 57% of medical staff suffered from psychological distress due to SARS outbreak.”
• Psychological Impact and Coping Strategies of Frontline Medical Staff in Hunan Between January and March 2020 During the Outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Hubei, China (2020, background): “According to previous studies, during the outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), frontline medical staff had reported high levels of stress that resulted in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) [1, 2] .”