The impact of COVID-19 on the mental health workforce: A rapid review.

Crocker, KM; Gnatt, I; Haywood, D; Butterfield, I; Bhat, R; Lalitha, ARN; Jenkins, ZM; Castle, DJ

The impact of COVID-19 on the mental health workforce: A rapid review.

Crocker, KM Gnatt, I Haywood, D

Butterfield, I Bhat, R Lalitha, ARN Jenkins, ZM Castle, DJ

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Int J Ment Health Nurs, 2023, 32, (2), pp. 420-445
Issue Date:: 2023-04

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dc.contributor.author	Crocker, KM
dc.contributor.author	Gnatt, I
dc.contributor.author	Haywood, D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9317-4135
dc.contributor.author	Butterfield, I
dc.contributor.author	Bhat, R
dc.contributor.author	Lalitha, ARN
dc.contributor.author	Jenkins, ZM
dc.contributor.author	Castle, DJ
dc.date.accessioned	2024-01-11T01:48:52Z
dc.date.available	2022-11-15
dc.date.available	2024-01-11T01:48:52Z
dc.date.issued	2023-04
dc.identifier.citation	Int J Ment Health Nurs, 2023, 32, (2), pp. 420-445
dc.identifier.issn	1445-8330
dc.identifier.issn	1447-0349
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/174272
dc.description.abstract	The COVID-19 pandemic led to significant adaptations to healthcare. Provision of mental healthcare in a changing environment presented healthcare workers with unique challenges and demands, including changes in workload and expectations. To inform current and future healthcare service responses, and adaptations, the current review aimed to collate and examine the impact of the pandemic on mental healthcare workers (MHWs). We conducted a rapid systematic review to examine the overall impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on MHWs. Searches were conducted in Ovid Medline and PsycInfo and restricted to articles published from 2020. Inclusion criteria specified articles written in English, published in peer-reviewed journals, and that examined any outcome of the impact of COVID-19 on MHWs; 55 articles fulfilled these criteria. Outcomes were categorized into 'work-related outcomes' and 'personal outcomes'. Mental healthcare workers worldwide experienced a range of work-related and personal adversities during the pandemic. Key work-related outcomes included increased workload, changed roles, burnout, decreased job satisfaction, telehealth challenges, difficulties with work-life balance, altered job performance, vicarious trauma and increased workplace violence. Personal outcomes included decreased well-being, increased psychological distress and psychosocial difficulties. These outcomes differed between inpatient, outpatient and remote settings. The COVID-19 pandemic significantly altered the delivery of mental healthcare and MHWs experienced both work-related and personal adversities during the COVID-19 pandemic. With the continuation of changes introduced to healthcare in the initial stages of the pandemic, it will be important to maintain efforts to monitor negative outcomes and ensure supports for MHWs, going forward.
dc.format	Print-Electronic
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	WILEY
dc.relation.ispartof	Int J Ment Health Nurs
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dc.subject	1110 Nursing, 1117 Public Health and Health Services, 1701 Psychology
dc.subject.classification	Nursing
dc.subject.classification	3904 Specialist studies in education
dc.subject.classification	4203 Health services and systems
dc.subject.classification	4205 Nursing
dc.subject.mesh	Humans
dc.subject.mesh	COVID-19
dc.subject.mesh	Pandemics
dc.subject.mesh	Health Workforce
dc.subject.mesh	Health Personnel
dc.subject.mesh	Burnout, Professional
dc.subject.mesh	Humans
dc.subject.mesh	Burnout, Professional
dc.subject.mesh	Health Personnel
dc.subject.mesh	Pandemics
dc.subject.mesh	Health Workforce
dc.subject.mesh	COVID-19
dc.subject.mesh	Humans
dc.subject.mesh	COVID-19
dc.subject.mesh	Pandemics
dc.subject.mesh	Health Workforce
dc.subject.mesh	Health Personnel
dc.subject.mesh	Burnout, Professional
dc.title	The impact of COVID-19 on the mental health workforce: A rapid review.
dc.type	Journal Article
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utslib.location.activity	Australia
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utslib.for	1117 Public Health and Health Services
utslib.for	1701 Psychology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
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Abstract:

The COVID-19 pandemic led to significant adaptations to healthcare. Provision of mental healthcare in a changing environment presented healthcare workers with unique challenges and demands, including changes in workload and expectations. To inform current and future healthcare service responses, and adaptations, the current review aimed to collate and examine the impact of the pandemic on mental healthcare workers (MHWs). We conducted a rapid systematic review to examine the overall impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on MHWs. Searches were conducted in Ovid Medline and PsycInfo and restricted to articles published from 2020. Inclusion criteria specified articles written in English, published in peer-reviewed journals, and that examined any outcome of the impact of COVID-19 on MHWs; 55 articles fulfilled these criteria. Outcomes were categorized into 'work-related outcomes' and 'personal outcomes'. Mental healthcare workers worldwide experienced a range of work-related and personal adversities during the pandemic. Key work-related outcomes included increased workload, changed roles, burnout, decreased job satisfaction, telehealth challenges, difficulties with work-life balance, altered job performance, vicarious trauma and increased workplace violence. Personal outcomes included decreased well-being, increased psychological distress and psychosocial difficulties. These outcomes differed between inpatient, outpatient and remote settings. The COVID-19 pandemic significantly altered the delivery of mental healthcare and MHWs experienced both work-related and personal adversities during the COVID-19 pandemic. With the continuation of changes introduced to healthcare in the initial stages of the pandemic, it will be important to maintain efforts to monitor negative outcomes and ensure supports for MHWs, going forward.

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