Resilience to Combat the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has affected the lives of nearly everyone across the globe. Indeed, the pandemic has prevented individuals from socializing with many of their peers, engaging in many everyday activities, and carry on with work in a normal way. Moreover, the pandemic has had a very negative effect on health —in particular, mental health. Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, a large number of general populations report anxiety, depression, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), psychological distress, and stress.(Xiong et al., 2020) Frontline healthcare providers—in particular, nurses— have exhibited anxiety and depression due to stressful situations in which they face not only the risk of infection, but also enormous work demands.(Shechter et al., 2020) Furthermore, the pandemic has exerted an even more significant burden on individuals with mental illness who already were—and are—socially isolated.
Source: Archives of Psychiatric Nursing - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research