Psychological Trauma Symptoms and Mental Conditions of Medical Staff during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Severe Stress, Elevated Anxiety, and Clinically Significant Depression
Daniel ThompsonABSTRACT. Empirical evidence on psychological trauma symptoms and mental conditions of medical staff during the COVID-19 pandemic has been scarcely documented in the literature. Using and replicating data from BMA, CHCF, Ginger, IASC, McKinsey, MedPage Today, Nursing Times, and Potloc, I performed analyses and made estimates regarding healthcare workers reporting experiencing feeling anxious or depressed in past week, stressors frontline workers may experience during the COVID-19 outbreak, and the virtual delivery of mental healthcare to COVID-19 frontline medical staff. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling.
JEL codes: H51; H75; I12; I18; D91
Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic; psychological trauma symptom; mental condition
How to cite: Thompson, D. (2020). “Psychological Trauma Symptoms and Mental Conditions of Medical Staff during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Severe Stress, Elevated Anxiety, and Clinically Significant Depression,” Psychosociological Issues in Human Resource Management 8(1): 25–30. doi:10.22381/PIHRM8120204
Received 27 April 2020 • Received in revised form 20 May 2020
Accepted 20 May 2020 • Available online 20 May 2020
