Resilience training for healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
Research carried out in the United States along with fourteen other countries suggested high rates of depression, anxiety, and acute stress reactions in healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The healthcare workers were found to suffer from high levels of stress as they had to face increased clinical demands during this time and were cut off from essential sources of support.
“The psychological impact of the pandemic on this population was first observed in healthcare workers in Wuhan, China, where 45-50% reported depression and anxiety and 71% reported increases in emotional distress,” says Nicole DeTore and the research team from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.