Rapid evidence assessment of studies focusing on mental health outcomes of pandemics for health care workers 2000-2020

Waring, Sara and Giles, Susan (2021). Rapid evidence assessment of studies focusing on mental health outcomes of pandemics for health care workers 2000-2020. [Data Collection]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Service. 10.5255/UKDA-SN-854423

Data description (abstract)

Little is known about what the long-term mental health impact of the covid-19 pandemic will be on health care workers. However, synthesising knowledge from past pandemics can help to anticipate this, along with identifying interventions required, target populations most in need, and at what time points. Accordingly, the aim of collecting this data set (published studies) is to provide a balanced evaluation of what is currently known about mental health impacts of pandemics on HCWs in the short- and long-term, methodological limitations and impact on knowledge claims.
The intention is to conduct a rapid evidence assessment using a literary synthesis approach. An extensive search was conducted for studies published in peer-reviewed journals between January 2000 and May 2020. As the mental health outcome of pandemics on health care workers is a multidisciplinary topic, the following databases were used: Cochrane Library, Discover, PsychInfo, PubMed, Science Direct, Scopus, and Google Scholar. The search strategy sequence was: 1) mental health outcomes* OR mental OR psychological OR health OR emotional OR social OR costs OR consequences; 2) health care workers* OR healthcare workers OR medical workers OR doctors OR physicians OR nurses OR paramedics; 3) pandemic* OR epidemic OR protracted incident.

Data creators:

Creator Name	Affiliation	ORCID (as URL)
Waring Sara	University of Liverpool	https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-5705
Giles Susan	University of Liverpool

Sponsors:

N/A

Topic classification:

Health
Psychology

Keywords:

HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS, PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING, PANDEMIC, VIRUS DISEASES, COVID-19, MORTALITY RATE, PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS

Date published:

02 Nov 2020 11:35

Last modified:

22 Nov 2021 11:18

Coverage and Methodology

Temporal coverage:

From	To
1 January 2000	May 2020

Collection period:

Date from:	Date to:
1 March 2020	30 June 2020

Country:

United Kingdom, Canada, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, China, Japan, Australia, Greece

Data collection method:

The majority of the 41 studies included in the rapid evidence assessment focussed on the 2003 SARS outbreak (k=34), followed by the 2009 H1N1 outbreak (k=4). Three recent publications relating to covid-19 were also included33, 40, 79. The vast majority of studies were conducted in Canada (k=11) and Asian countries (k=27: Hong Kong, k=8; Taiwan, k=8; Singapore, k=5; China, k=5; Japan, k=1). Two studies were conducted in Australia and one in Greece. In total, 31,111 HCWs participated across these 41 studies. Sampling frames ranged from all staff in one hospital to staff from across 34 hospitals.
Data extraction followed a two-stage selection process consisting of an initial screening of titles and abstracts against the predetermined inclusion / exclusion criteria, followed by full-text versions being downloaded and read. Inter-rater reliability was conducted with another reviewer independently reading 50% of articles to assess whether they met the inclusion criteria. In total, this resulted in 41 studies being identified as relevant to include in the rapid evidence assessment.

Observation unit:

Text unit, Object

Kind of data:

Text

Type of data:

Qualitative and mixed methods data

Resource language:

English

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