Psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on health care workers in Singapore

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 2020, Pages 317-320

  Tan, Benjamin Y Q ^a   Chew, Nicholas W S ^a   Lee, Grace K H ^b,c   Jing, Mingxue ^a   Goh, Yihui ^a   Yeo, Leonard L L ^a   Zhang, Ka ^a   Chin, Howe Keat ^a   Ahmad, Aftab ^c   Khan, Faheem Ahmed ^c   Shanmugam, Ganesh Napolean ^c   Chan, Bernard P L ^a   Sunny, Sibi ^a   Chandra, Bharatendu ^a   Ong, Jonathan J Y ^a   Paliwal, Prakash R ^a   Wong, Lily Y H ^a   Sagayanathan, Renarebecca ^a   Chen, Jin Tao ^a   Ying Ng, Alison Ying ^a   Teoh, Hock Luen ^a   Ho, Cyrus S ^d   Ho, Roger C ^e   Sharma, Vijay K ^a   more..

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c Ng Teng Fong General Hospital   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e National University of Singapore   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COMORBIDITY; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSION, ANXIETY AND STRESS SCALE-21; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; IMPACT OF EVENTS SCALE; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANDEMIC; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING; SINGAPORE; BETACORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; MENTAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ADULT; BETACORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; PREVALENCE; SINGAPORE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 85083557373     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/M20-1083     Document Type: Letter

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