A multinational, multicentre study on the psychological outcomes and associated physical symptoms amongst healthcare workers during COVID-19 outbreak

• Published in: Brain, behavior, and immunity Vol. 88; pp. 559 - 565
• Main Authors: Chew, Nicholas W.S., Lee, Grace K.H., Tan, Benjamin Y.Q., Jing, Mingxue, Goh, Yihui, Ngiam, Nicholas J.H., Yeo, Leonard L.L., Ahmad, Aftab, Ahmed Khan, Faheem, Napolean Shanmugam, Ganesh, Sharma, Arvind K., Komalkumar, R.N., Meenakshi, P.V., Shah, Kenam, Patel, Bhargesh, Chan, Bernard P.L., Sunny, Sibi, Chandra, Bharatendu, Ong, Jonathan J.Y., Paliwal, Prakash R., Wong, Lily Y.H., Sagayanathan, Renarebecca, Chen, Jin Tao, Ying Ng, Alison Ying, Teoh, Hock Luen, Tsivgoulis, Georgios, Ho, Cyrus S., Ho, Roger C., Sharma, Vijay K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier Inc 01.08.2020
• Subjects: Adult; Allied Health Personnel - psychology; Allied Health Personnel - statistics & numerical data; Anxiety; Anxiety - epidemiology; Betacoronavirus; Coronavirus Infections; COVID-19; Depression; Depression - epidemiology; Female; Headache - epidemiology; Health Personnel - psychology; Health Personnel - statistics & numerical data; Healthcare workers; Humans; India - epidemiology; Internationality; Lethargy - epidemiology; Male; Nurses - psychology; Nurses - statistics & numerical data; Pandemic; Pandemics; Pharyngitis - epidemiology; Physical symptoms; Physicians - psychology; Physicians - statistics & numerical data; Pneumonia, Viral; Prevalence; Psychological impact; SARS-CoV-2; Singapore - epidemiology; Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders - epidemiology; Stress; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - epidemiology; Stress, Psychological - epidemiology; Surveys and Questionnaires; Singapore; India; COVID-19; Depression; Pandemic; Physical symptoms; Healthcare workers; Anxiety; Psychological impact; Stress

•Commonly reported symptoms are headache, throat pain and lethargy.•A large number of healthcare workers report more than four symptoms.•Those with physical symptoms had higher rates of depression, anxiety, stress, PTSD.•Those with physical symptoms had higher mean scores in the IES-R, DASS subscale...