Psychological impact of the 2015 MERS outbreak on hospital workers and quarantined hemodialysis patients

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 87, Issue , 2018, Pages 123-127

  Lee, Sang Min ^a,b   Kang, Won Sub ^c   Cho, Ah Rang ^d   Kim, Tae ^e   Park, Jin Kyung ^d  

^a Konyang University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Konyang University   (South Korea)

^c Kyung Hee University Hospital   (South Korea)

^d Kyung Hee University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^e Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Healthcare workers; Mental health; Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus infection; Quarantine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IMPACT OF EVENTS SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; MINI INTERNATIONAL NEUROPSYCHIATRIC INTERVIEW; PARESTHESIA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUARANTINE; SLEEP; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; QUARANTINE; RENAL DIALYSIS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 85055109478     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: 15328384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2018.10.003     Document Type: Article

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