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Mental health care for medical staff in China during the COVID-19 outbreak

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Chen, Qiongni, Liang, Mining, Li, Yamin, Guo, Jincai, Fei, Dongxue, Wang, Ling, He, Li, Sheng, Caihua +4 more·2020·The Lancet Psychiatry

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  • During outbreaks, healthcare workers experience intense pressure from increased workload, anxiety about contracting infection, fear of passing it to family, and fear of death.

    “This is known to lead to immense pressure on all health care workers (HCW) due to increased workload, anxiety regarding acquiring infection or passing it on to a family member and fears of death (Chen et al., 2020; Adams and Walls, 2020)”

    From Integrating mental health in COVID-19 crisis: Staff mental health referral pathway (2020) · cites this paper as Chen et al., 2020

    The paper’s main text says medical staff faced physical and psychological pressure and feared bringing the virus home to their families. It also says infection was not an immediate worry to the staff interviewed once they began work. It does not identify increased workload or fear of death as causes of their pressure; staff instead said they needed more rest. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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  • The staff mental health pathway was formulated based on evidence from prior studies.

    “The DOP in liaison with human resources department formulated an evidence based pathway (Chen et al., 2020; Liu et al., 2020; Zhang et al., 2020) to address mental health needs of HCWs.”

    From Integrating mental health in COVID-19 crisis: Staff mental health referral pathway (2020) · cites this paper as Chen et al., 2020

    The paper’s main text (page not provided) describes a psychological intervention plan for medical staff and says its measures were adjusted after interviews with staff. It supports using the paper as evidence about ways to address staff mental health needs, but does not say the citing authors’ pathway was formulated from prior studies. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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  • Recent experiences in China demonstrate that not all nurses willingly partake in group or individual psychological interventions due to stigma surrounding mental health issues.

    “Furthermore, recent experiences in China demonstrate that not all nurses willingly partake in group or individual psychological interventions due to the stigma surrounding mental health issues (13).”

    From Translation, adaptation, and initial evaluation of a guided self-help intervention to reduce psychological distress among nurses during COVID-19 in China (2023) · cites this paper as [13]

    In the paper’s main text (page not given), Chen et al. report that medical staff were reluctant to join group or individual psychological interventions and that some nurses refused help. The paper does not attribute this reluctance to mental-health stigma; its account of staff concerns instead mentions rest, protective supplies, family worries, and difficulties caring for patients. (LLM, conf=0.90)

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  • In China, frontline health providers did not utilize psychological interventions developed for them during COVID-19 due to a lack of time.

    “For example, the researchers (14) in China developed psychological interventions for frontline health providers during COVID-19 process and yet the health providers did not utilize the services at all due to a lack of time.”

    From A proposed framework based on literature review of online contextual mental health services to enhance wellbeing and address psychopathology during covid-19 (2020) · cites this paper as [14]

    In the unpaginated main text, the hospital developed psychological interventions, and staff were reluctant to participate in group or individual sessions. The reported reasons for refusing help include wanting uninterrupted rest and adequate protective supplies, but the paper does not say staff lacked time or that none used the services. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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  • Being a keyworker during the pandemic has been associated with worse mental health outcomes.

    “Being a keyworker during the pandemic has been associated with worse mental health outcomes [45,76,77].”

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Authors
Chen, Q., Liang, M., Li, Y., Guo, J., Fei, D., Wang, L., He, L., Sheng, C., Cai, Y., Li, X., Wang, J., & Zhang, Z.
Affiliations
Central South University (CN)
Corresponding author
Liang, Mining
Venue
The Lancet Psychiatry
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2020-04
Volume
7
Issue
4
Pages
e15-e16
ISSN
2215-0366 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3009037202
Cited by
2,233
References
4
Citations by year
2026: 24 · 2025: 69 · 2024: 112 · 2023: 275 · 2022: 438 · 2021: 713 · 2020: 600
FWCI
202.76
Type
journal article
Language
en
Update notices
erratum (2020-05-01)
Open access
Locations
  • The Lancet Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Occupational Therapy › Occupational Health and Burnout
Keywords
COVID-19 pandemic, mental health services, healthcare workers, psychological distress, psychological support, Wuhan outbreak
MeSH terms
Personal Protective Equipment, Betacoronavirus, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Adaptation, Psychological, China, Disease Outbreaks, Family Health, Humans, Mental Health Services, Personnel, Hospital, Pneumonia, Viral, Rest, Stress, Psychological, Treatment Refusal, Coronavirus Infections

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