User:Ademi129/Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare workers

Article that I will be editing: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare workers

- add to psychological impact section

- there are mentions of the effect on healthcare workers briefly from different countries but none of it goes into detail

- add info about articles that studied the effects of burnout (includes many symptoms) and the methodologies for those studies (generally just so people have an idea of how the study was formed)

- '''In Wuhan, which was the epicenter of the pandemic, over 70% of healthcare workers reported psychological distress. Of the symptoms reported by healthcare workers in this study, there were high rates of depression (50.4%), anxiety (44.6%), and insomnia (34%).'''

'''- COVID-19 has forced healthcare workers to make many difficult ethical decisions. These include concerns for the safety of spreading COVID-19 to their families since the risk is higher when they work and care for patients that may be positive for COVID-19, deciding how to distribute limited resources such as ventilators among many patients who all need it, and deciding at what point healthcare workers should stay home instead of continue to go to work if they suspect they might have been exposed to COVID-19.'''

- add to impact on female staff section

- pretty empty section

- currently, there is barely any substantial information in this section so I wanted to add a more in depth paragraph about the psychological impact on female healthcare workers specifically

- there are differences in the studies' results of healthcare workers where women suffered more of the burnout symptoms than their male counterparts so I could add to that here

- '''During the COVID-19 pandemic, rates of burnout are higher in female healthcare workers than male workers. Female healthcare workers were 55% more likely to report burnout compared to their male coworkers.'''

- the last subsection I want to add to is the Managing Job Stress section

- based on the results and conclusions of the studies I read, I want to add to this section and apply ways that healthcare workers and other frontline workers can do to combat this stress and not burnout (or if they do feel burnout, how to take a proper break and alternatives to rest their mind)

to start:

- read the article thoroughly

- find more related articles to read to eventually use to cite sources

References:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32202646/

From Daven, This appears to be a good start for your thinking. I encourage you to read and reread the article, it helped me really get to terms with what was working and what was not working.