A psychological health support scheme for medical teams in COVID-19 outbreak and its effectiveness.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medical staff fighting the COVID-19 pandemic are experiencing stress from high occupational risk, panic in the community and the extreme workload. Maintaining the psychological health of a medical team is essential for efficient functioning, but psychological intervention models for emergency medical teams are rare.

Aims

To design a systematic, full-coverage psychological health support scheme for medical teams serving large-scale emergent situations, and demonstrate its effectiveness in a real-world study in Leishenshan Hospital during the COVID-19 epidemic in Wuhan, China.

Methods

The scheme integrates onsite and online mental health resources and features team-based psychosocial support and evidence-based interventions. It contained five modules, includi

SUBMITTER: Cheng W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7462042 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature