Impact of coronavirus syndromes on physical and mental health of health care workers: Systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health care workers (HCW) are at high risk of developing physical/mental health outcomes related to coronavirus syndromes. Nature and frequency of these outcomes are undetermined.

Methods

PRISMA/MOOSE-compliant (PROSPERO-CRD42020180205) systematic review of Web of Science/grey literature until 15th April 2020, to identify studies reporting physical/mental health outcomes in HCW infected/exposed to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome -SARS-, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome -MERS-, Novel coronavirus -COVID-19-. Proportion random effect meta-analyses, I² statistic, quality assessment and sensitivity analysis.

Results

115 articles were included (n=60,458 HCW, age 36.1±7.1, 77.1% female). Physical health outcomes: 75.9% HCW infected by SARS/MERS/COVID-

SUBMITTER: Salazar de Pablo G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7314697 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature