Systematic Review
Anxiety, Depression, Traumatic Stress, Burnout, and Insomnia; COVID-19 Pandemic Effects on Health Care Providers: Insight from Systematic Review
- Authors: Nida Shoaib, Mehak Afaq, Sameera Ali Rizvi
Abstract
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The systematic review was to assess the mental health status of healthcare workers due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. For this systematic review, 25 articles were selected manually from 2021 and 2022. The selected articles focused on the effects of COVID-19 on health workers like burnout, insomnia depression, anxiety, and traumatic stress. Original peer-reviewed observational and descriptive studies were identified using PubMed, and Google Scholar engine. Articles revealed a high significance between health care professionals' post-traumatic stress disorder, sleeplessness, burnout, and depression, whereas few studies mainly indicated the positive correlation between burnout and stress among HCWs, with insomnia highly significant. The systematic review concluded that among healthcare personnel, an elevated risk of developing psychological distress, burnout, sleep quality, and insomnia during the COVID-19 pandemic exists. Our review underlines the requirement for intervention and further longitudinal study designs directed at prevention, treatment, and effective ways to delineate the causation of mental health outcomes in healthcare workers.
- Keywords: Depression, burn-out, post-traumatic stress disorder, health care providers, COVID-19.
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