Implementation of a Psychiatric Consultation for Healthcare Workers during First Wave of COVID-19 Outbreak.

ABSTRACT: Prevention and management strategies of mental suffering in healthcare workers appeared as important challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. This article aims to: (1) show how potential psychiatric disorders for healthcare workers (HCW) during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak were identified; (2) present an activity report of this consultation; and (3) analyze and learn from this experience for the future. We performed a retrospective quantitative analysis of socio-demographic and clinical data, in addition to psychiatric scales scores for the main potential psychiatric risks (PDI, PDEQ, PCL-5, HADS, MBI-HSS) and post-hoc qualitative analysis of written interviews. Twenty-five healthcare workers consulted between 19 March 2020 and 12 June 2020. We found 78.57% presented high peritr

SUBMITTER: Benzakour L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9025663 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature