Health care workers around the world have responded to requests for treatment of COVID-19 patients, potentially at significant cost to their health and well-being. During this period, the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of frontline workers and calls for psychosocial support for them have also been highlighted. Moreover the need for diagnosis and teamwork has been not only a challenge for health workers. So far, however, little attention has been paid to understanding the impact of work on a pandemic from the perspective of healthcare workers themselves or what their views on support are. The experiences of health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic are not unprecedented; the topics that emerged from previous pandemics and epidemics are extremely resonant with what we are hearing about the impact of COVID-19 worldwide today.
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Target groups:
Students of the Faculties of Technical Medical Sciences and other professors and lecturers.