Effectiveness of a WHO self-help psychological intervention to alleviate stress among healthcare workers in the context of COVID-19 in China: a randomised controlled trial

CONCLUSIONS: This is the first known randomised controlled trial ever conducted to improve stress and mental health problems among healthcare workers experiencing psychological stress in a low-resource setting. SH+ was found to be an effective strategy for alleviating psychological stress and reducing symptoms of common mental problems. SH+ has the potential to be scaled-up as a public health strategy to reduce the burden of mental health problems in healthcare workers exposed to high levels of stress.PMID:38450478 | PMC:PMC10940054 | DOI:10.1017/S2045796024000106

Source: Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences - March 7, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Jinghua Li Rui Luo Pengyue Guo Dexing Zhang Phoenix K H Mo Anise M S Wu Meiqi Xin Menglin Shang Yuqi Cai Xu Wang Mingyu Chen Yiling He Luxin Zheng Jinying Huang Roman Dong Xu Joseph T F Lau Jing Gu Brian J Hall Source Type: research