Factors That Influence the Resilience of Healthcare Personnel during a Pandemic: A Systematic Literature Review
Abstract
Evidence from epidemics suggests that healthcare workers are at risk of short- and long-term mental health problems. The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned about the potential negative impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the mental well-being of health and social care professionals. Symptoms of common mental health problems include depression, anxiety, stress, and other cognitive and social problems; this can impact functioning at work. Health workers’ mental health and mental resilience can be supported during the pandemic through workplace interventions, interventions to support basic daily needs, psychological support interventions, or a combination of any of these. This article aims to identify the factors that influence the resilience of health workers during pandemics. This research is a systematic review research. We identified 17 key factors that influence health worker resilience during the pandemic, as reported in this study. We searched for articles listed in Scopus. We conducted all searches starting from 2020 and restricted the language to English. Based on the literature review, we derived useful hypotheses for future research from our synthesis. The novelty of this research is in its identification of various determinants of resilience from an individual, organizational, and systemic perspective.
Keywords: resilience, health workers, pandemic.
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