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Effective interventions supporting nurses working in epidemics or pandemics: a meta-review of systematic reviews
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Jacqueline Sin
- School of Health Sciences, University of London, United Kingdom
| Veröffentlicht: | 5. Juli 2021 |
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Background: The COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak was declared a global pandemic in March 2020; one of a scale in terms of its reach and duration never seen before in recent decades. The pandemic has put extreme high workload and pressure on nurses leading to worsen mental health problems, including anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder/symptoms, burnout, and moral injury [1]. Although psychosocial interventions were considered helpful, access and take-up by nurses have been much lower than expected but particularly least requested or received by those with higher levels of mental health difficulties [2]. Previous pandemic research has highlighted the importance of supporting nurses’ mental health which is associated with their work functioning and willingness to work in future infectious disease outbreaks [3].
Objectives: To synthesize evidence on the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions for treating mental disorders/symptoms in nurses working in an epidemic/pandemic, and to identify effective implementation mechanisms which optimize uptake of treatment.
Design and methods: A meta-review of systematic reviews on interventions targeting nurses, midwives, and nursing/midwifery associates, assistants, trainees, and students. We will search various literature databases including MEDLINE, PsycINFO, and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, WHO websites, and international governmental websites, from the first SARS emergence in Year 2002 to April 2021. We will appraise quality of included reviews using AMSTAR 2 [4] and conduct a narrative synthesis across outcomes and results within included reviews [5].
Results: We are a team of systematic review experts. The meta-review is underway and due to complete in July when the results will be presented at the conference.
Conflict of interest: None to declare.
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