Immediate impact of COVID-19 on mental health and its associated factors among healthcare workers: A global perspective across 31 countries

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. 2020 Dec;10(2):020381.

doi: 10.7189/jogh.10.020381.

Immediate impact of COVID-19 on mental health and its associated factors among healthcare workers: A global perspective across 31 countries

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¹ Department of Community Medicine, Melaka-Manipal Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Melaka, Malaysia.
² Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Asia Metropolitan University, Johor, Malaysia.
³ Birzeit University & Arab American University, Palestine.
⁴ Research Center of Public Health, Faculty of Health, University of Vlore "Ismail Qemali", Vlore, Albania.
⁵ Department of Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmaceutical Industries, Future University in Egypt, Cairo, Egypt.
⁶ North Star Alliance, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and South Africa.
⁷ Pun Hlaing Siloam Hospital, Yangon, Myanmar.
⁸ Maternal and Child Health Unit, Alexandria Fever Hospital, Alexandria, Egypt.
⁹ South East Asia Community Observatory (SEACO) & Global Public Health, Jeffery Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia.

PMID: 33214890
PMCID: PMC7649521
DOI: 10.7189/jogh.10.020381

Review

Immediate impact of COVID-19 on mental health and its associated factors among healthcare workers: A global perspective across 31 countries

Mila Nu Nu Htay et al. J Glob Health. 2020 Dec.

. 2020 Dec;10(2):020381.

doi: 10.7189/jogh.10.020381.

Affiliations

¹ Department of Community Medicine, Melaka-Manipal Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Melaka, Malaysia.
² Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Asia Metropolitan University, Johor, Malaysia.
³ Birzeit University & Arab American University, Palestine.
⁴ Research Center of Public Health, Faculty of Health, University of Vlore "Ismail Qemali", Vlore, Albania.
⁵ Department of Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmaceutical Industries, Future University in Egypt, Cairo, Egypt.
⁶ North Star Alliance, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and South Africa.
⁷ Pun Hlaing Siloam Hospital, Yangon, Myanmar.
⁸ Maternal and Child Health Unit, Alexandria Fever Hospital, Alexandria, Egypt.
⁹ South East Asia Community Observatory (SEACO) & Global Public Health, Jeffery Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia.

PMID: 33214890
PMCID: PMC7649521
DOI: 10.7189/jogh.10.020381

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Conflict of interest: The authors completed the ICMJE Unified Competing Interest form (available upon request from the corresponding author), and declare no conflicts of interest.

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[1] Lai J, Ma S, Wang Y, Cai Z, Hu J, Wei N, et al. Factors Associated With Mental Health Outcomes Among Health Care Workers Exposed to Coronavirus Disease 2019. JAMA Netw Open. 2020;3:e203976. 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.3976 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

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