{"title":"COVID-19 Salgınının Sağlık Çalışanlarının Mental Sağlık Durumuna Etkisi","authors":"Rumeysa Özçelik, K. Avcı","doi":"10.51536/tusbad.1079245","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 epidemic worldwide has not only caused the death of thousands of people, but has also become a threat to people's mental health. In extraordinary situations such as epidemics, health workers provide spiritual satisfaction for reasons such as serving humanity. However, accompanying the disease process of the patients he cares for, witnessing their pain, uncertainty, helplessness, loneliness and fear also cause mental health problems. These changes and the epidemic can trigger and worsen psychiatric illnesses and increase the difficulties experienced by caregivers.On the other hand, mental health affects the working efficiency and problem-solving abilities of employees. In this study, it is aimed to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the mental health status of healthcare workers in line with the literature.","PeriodicalId":123014,"journal":{"name":"Türkiye Sağlık Bilimleri ve Araştırmaları Dergisi","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Türkiye Sağlık Bilimleri ve Araştırmaları Dergisi","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.51536/tusbad.1079245","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
COVID-19 Salgınının Sağlık Çalışanlarının Mental Sağlık Durumuna Etkisi
The COVID-19 epidemic worldwide has not only caused the death of thousands of people, but has also become a threat to people's mental health. In extraordinary situations such as epidemics, health workers provide spiritual satisfaction for reasons such as serving humanity. However, accompanying the disease process of the patients he cares for, witnessing their pain, uncertainty, helplessness, loneliness and fear also cause mental health problems. These changes and the epidemic can trigger and worsen psychiatric illnesses and increase the difficulties experienced by caregivers.On the other hand, mental health affects the working efficiency and problem-solving abilities of employees. In this study, it is aimed to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the mental health status of healthcare workers in line with the literature.