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Posttraumatic stress disorder and major depression among frontline healthcare staff working during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Objectives: High rates of probable post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depressive disorder (MDD) have been reported for frontline healthcare staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, rates determined by diagnostic assessment are unknown, as are the onset of symptoms and associated index events.
Methods: We assessed frontline healthcare staff with the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5.
Results: Forty-four percent met criteria for PTSD and 39% met criteria for MDD. Twenty-four percent reported COVID-19 trauma as their index event, with the majority of staff reporting trauma that pre-dated the pandemic. While PTSD was likely to be pre-existing, MDD was more likely to develop during pandemic working.
Conclusion: These findings indicate the propensity of healthcare staff to experience a range of occupational and personal trauma associated with PTSD and the need to assess index trauma when diagnosing psychopathology in order to best understand the needs of this workforce.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1111/bjc.12340
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- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Journal:
- British Journal of Clinical Psychology More from this journal
- Volume:
- 61
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 859-866
- Publication date:
- 2021-10-29
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-10-11
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2044-8260
- ISSN:
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0144-6657
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English
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1199960
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pubs:1199960
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2021-10-11
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- 2021
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- © 2021 The Authors. British Journal of Clinical Psychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Psychological Society This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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