A Year of Pandemic—Comparison of Depression Among Neurosurgeons After the Advent of the COVID-19 Vaccine

Fear of COVID 19 and the relation to resilience, meaning in life and subjective well being - Comparison between American and Israeli health care workers

“…Although the wellbeing and emotional resilience of healthcare professionals are key components of continuing healthcare services during the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare professionals have been observed in this period to experience serious psychological problems and to be at risk in terms of mental health 15 . Various studies among frontline physicians, nurses, paramedical and administrative staff around the world, revealed a high prevalence of stress, anxiety and depression 16,17 We found that the overall subjective wellbeing and meaning in life scores are noticeably higher for the American participants whereas the fear of COVID-19 and resilience scores are close in both studies, with slightly higher resilience and lower fear in the Israeli HCWs. This difference may be explained by the Israeli geo-political-social context, related to the potential of persistent and pervasive threat and risk exposure, which may influence the perception of resilience and result in effective coping strategies of the Israeli cohort 18,19.…”

The Psychological Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Frontline Healthcare Workers : A Systematic Review and a Meta-Analysis

“…Similarly, the following HCW characteristics were independently associated with increased depression symptoms: female sex (Collantoni et al, 2021;Gorini et al, 2020;Rossi et al, 2020), young age (Rossi et al, 2020), high alcohol consumption (Morawa et al, 2021), death of a colleague (Rossi et al, 2020), nursing job role (Collantoni et al, 2021;Morawa et al, 2021;Skoda et al, 2020), not being vaccinated (Sharif et al, 2022), and working in the frontline (Antonijevic et al, 2020;Collantoni et al, 2021;Rossi et al, 2020). Positive infection status is positively associated with depression symptoms (Collantoni et al, 2021;Sharif et al, 2022). Being a physician (Denning et al, 2021) is significantly associated with decreased depression symptoms.…”

“…However, medical assistants appear to have significantly greater depression symptoms than physicians and nurses, while HCWs have significantly lower symptoms than the general population (Morawa et al, 2021). Redeployment during the pandemic also significantly increased depression symptoms (Collantoni et al, 2021;Denning et al, 2021;Sharif et al, 2022).…”

“…Excessive workload was associated with psychological symptoms (Aisa et al, 2022). With limited personal protective equipment and COVID information, healthcare workers often did not eat, drink, or relieve them- selves during shifts while simultaneously working long shifts in high temperatures and negative pressure environments, and thus became mentally and physically exhausted (Aisa et al, 2022;Büntzel et al, 2021;De Pasquale et al, 2022;Erquicia et al, 2020;Gorini et al, 2020;Hummel et al, 2021;Morawa et al, 2021;Sharif et al, 2022;van Hout et al, 2022;Vindrola-Padros et al, 2020). All these factors increased the risk of psychological distress for healthcare workers.…”

“…This systematic review includes 22 cross-sectional studies with a total of 32,690 participants (Table 1). Out of all the cross-sectional studies, six studies were undertaken in Italy (Babore et al, 2020;Collantoni et al, 2021;Davico et al, 2021;De Pasquale et al, 2022;Gorini et al, 2020;Rossi et al, 2020), three in Spain (Erquicia et al, 2020;Goberna-Tricas et al, 2021;Mortier et al, 2021), three in Germany (Büntzel et al, 2021;Morawa et al, 2021;Skoda et al, 2020), one in Romania (Man et al, 2020), one in the United Kingdom and Poland (Denning et al, 2021), one in France (Abdessater et al, 2020), one in Serbia (Antonijevic et al, 2020), one in the United Kingdom (Vindrola-Padros et al, 2020), and five in a combination of European countries (Aisa et al, 2022;Failla et al, 2021;Hummel et al, 2021;Sharif et al, 2022;van Hout et al, 2022).…”