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Commentary on: Pollock A, Campbell P, Cheyne J, et al. Interventions to support the resilience and mental health of frontline health and social care professionals during and a disease outbreak, epidemic or pandemic: a mixed methods systematic review. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2020; 11: CD013779.
Implications for practice and research
There is a lack of robust evidence informing decisions on which interventions best support resilience in frontline staff during pandemics.
Future research should capture the antecedent factors including (a) personal characteristics, (b) work environment and (c) job characteristics, associated with well-being to support the development of targeted resilience enhancing interventions.
Context
Pandemics place frontline workers at high risk of mental illness. During the COVID-19 pandemic, 30% of healthcare workers reported high levels of acute traumatic stress, depression, anxiety, sleep disturbance and alcohol use disorder.1 Antecedents of mental illness include rapidly changing workload and context, powerlessness, limited access to resources (ie, personal protective equipment) and …
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Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
Competing interests None declared.
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