توصیه های موثر برای کاهش اضطراب و افسردگی ناشی از شیوع COVID-19 در کادر پزشکی

عنوان انگليسی

Effective recommendations for reducing anxiety and depression caused by COVID-19 outbreak in medical staff

خلاصه انگلیسی

The pandemy of new coronavirus (COVID-19) and its spread to other geographical areas has become a major concern for health care providers around the world in recent months after the outbreak in Wuhan, China (Zandifar & Badrfam, 2020). The number of patients around the world is increasing, and with the reporting of new cases in countries, there is a widespread fear and anxiety from this disease with its various unknown dimensions. Although the mortality rate of COVID-19 is lower than previous coronavirus such as Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), the morbidity of the disease have increased the fear of the disease. (Banerjee, 2020). However, COVID-19 has similarities with SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV but the evidence showed that the speed of this newly identified virus spreads is greater than the previous two and it is more contagious in human-to-human transmission (Li et al., 2020; World Health Organization (WHO), 2020). The reported common symptoms include “fever, cough, shortness of breath and respiratory problems and in more severe cases, pneumonia, acute respiratory failure, kidney failure”, and even death are not unexpected

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