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cord-262428-erlmyzwn	CABARKAPA, Sonja	The psychological impact of COVID-19 and other viral epidemics on frontline healthcare workers and ways to address it: A rapid systematic review	2020-09-17		.txt	text/plain	5588	329	53	The search strategy included terms for HCWs (e.g., nurse and doctor), mental health (e.g., wellbeing and psychological), and viral outbreaks (e.g., epidemic and pandemic). In terms of mental health impact of epidemics, HCWs represent a particularly vulnerable group due to the high risk of infection, increased work stress and fear of spreading to their families. The following search terms were used: 'health worker', 'health care worker', 'medical', 'doctor', 'nursing', 'nurse', 'allied health', 'pandemic', 'outbreak', 'mental health', 'mental illness', 'psychiatric', 'psychological', 'coping', 'psychosocial', 'COVID-19', 'coronavirus', 'SARS', 'MERS' and 'Ebola'. 36, 51 At the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, a Wuhan study 28 found that 34.4% (342 of 994) of medical and nursing staff had mild mental health disturbances while 6.2% (62) had severe disturbances, while in another study 24 of 1,521 Chinese HCWs 14.1% had psychological abnormalities. Impact on mental health and perceptions of psychological care among medical and nursing staff in Wuhan during the 2019 novel coronavirus disease outbreak: A cross-sectional study.	./cache/cord-262428-erlmyzwn.txt	./txt/cord-262428-erlmyzwn.txt