Experiences of healthcare providers during the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on them: protocol for a mixed-methods systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Frontline healthcare providers are redeployed to areas outside their clinical expertise and assigned high-loading workload to address the surge of patients with each coronavirus outbreak. Their importance in crisis is not in doubt. However, they experienced considerable physical distress and psychological stressors, even leading to psychological illness and infection in this environment. There is an urgent need to accurately, comprehensively and objectively understand their experiences, perceptions and current situation of burnout, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, depression, insomnia and coronavirus infection. Therefore, this protocol is to conduct a mixed-methods systematic review to summarise the evidence on the experiences of healthcare providers and

SUBMITTER: Xu N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7918807 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature