Impact on mental health and perceptions of psychological care among medical and nursing staff in Wuhan during the 2019 novel coronavirus disease outbreak: A cross-sectional study

Are we facing a crashing wave of neuropsychiatric sequelae of COVID-19? Neuropsychiatric symptoms and potential immunologic mechanisms

“…Depression, anxiety, and trauma-related symptoms have been associated with CoV outbreaks, but it remains unclear whether the risks are attributable to viral infections per se or the host immune response. Studies of healthcare workers during the SARS-CoV-1 epidemic, MERS-CoV outbreak, and the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic suggest that the frequency and severity of psychiatric symptoms are associated with proximity to CoV-infected patients (Kang et al, 2020b; Neuropsychiatric sequelae of COVID-19 8 Lai et al, 2020;Lee et al, 2018;Lin et al, 2007). However, these studies did not test serology or immune markers in healthcare workers, and no studies have been performed comparing psychiatric outcomes in healthcare workers who contracted CoV during pandemics versus those who did not.…”

The differential psychological distress of populations affected by the COVID-19 pandemic

“…Early identification of populations in the first stages of psychological crisis will allow for the efficient implementation of interventional strategies (National Health Commission of China 2020). The clinical characteristics of psychological distress have not been well established across the populations affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, although a general increased level of mental distress has been reported from both the general public and frontline medical personnel (Kang et al, 2020;Qiu et al, 2020).…”

Mental health and emotional impact of COVID-19: Applying Health Belief Model for medical staff to general public of Pakistan

“…Mental health problems can occur or aggravate or trigger psychological and emotional distress in self-isolated and quarantined individuals (Kelvin and Rubino, 2020). Besides, health care professionals continuously working in isolated units of hospitals could experience confinement phenomena causing collective hysteria (Montemurro, 2020;Kang et al, 2020). The victimization of vicarious traumatization could be significantly higher in general public and non-frontline medical workers (Li et al, 2020) because Pakistan's 24/7 active news channels are inducing the updates around the world regarding COVID-19 pandemic outbreak -as compared to frontline workers who are trained with the empirical immediate knowledge about the transmission and preventive control of COVID-19.…”