What can psychiatrists learn from SARS and MERS outbreaks?
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While standard care for patients with psychiatric disorders must continue during the current COVID-19 pandemic, psychiatrists also need to treat psychiatric complications of patients with this new disease. An estimation of expected prevalences of psychiatric disorders occurring in this group would help to redistribute mental health personnel between old and new tasks to serve the needs of both groups optimally. In The Lancet Psychiatry, Jonathan Rogers and colleagues1 report the results of their systematic review and meta-analysis of psychiatric sequelae in patients admitted to hospital with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), and COVID-19 in the acute and post-illness stages of disease.
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Experiences during outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases (SARS, MERS) were associated with PTSS among HCWs.
“Prior literature has reported that experiences encountered during outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases [e.g., severe acute respiratory syndrome and Middle East respiratory syndrome] were associated with PTSS among HCWs [4].”
From Associations between COVID-19 Work-Related Stressors and Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms among Chinese Doctors and Nurses: Application of Stress-Coping Theory (2022) · cites this paper as [4]
The main text (page unavailable) reports post-illness PTSD among patients hospitalized with SARS or MERS. It does not report an association between outbreak experiences and post-traumatic stress symptoms among health-care workers; the population and relationship claimed are different. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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- Authors
- Sommer, I. E., & Bakker, P. R.
- Affiliations
- University Medical Center Groningen (NL)
- Maastricht University Medical Centre (NL)
- Corresponding author
- Sommer, Iris E
- Venue
- The Lancet Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-07
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 565-566
- ISSN
- 2215-0366 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7234779
- OpenAlex
- W3024045669
- Cited by
- 44
- References
- 8
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 3.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- The Lancet Psychiatry (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Neurology › Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- Keywords
- psychiatric sequelae, SARS, MERS, COVID-19 pandemic
- MeSH terms
- Betacoronavirus, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Humans, Pneumonia, Viral, Psychiatry, Coronavirus Infections, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Pandemics
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