The impact of COVID-19 on the mental health and wellbeing of nurses working in the hospital setting during pandemic - a scoping review
Creators: name: Adhikari, Ramen
name: Parry, Yvonne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Mental health, nurses, hospital, COVID-19, Coronavirus, anxiety, depression, stress, insomnia

description: <strong> Introduction </strong> COVID-19 was initially found in Wuhan, China, as a cluster of a surreptitious case of pneumonia (Rajkumar, 2020). COVID-19 spread quickly across the globe and has significantly reached the level of infection into a pandemic, impacting every country worldwide (Rajkumar, 2020). Globally, as of 3 August 2022, there have been more than 57.7 million cases of COVID-19, including more than 6.4 million deaths reported to the World Health Organisation (WHO) (World Health Organisation (WHO), 2022). In the challenge of this global health emergency, the health sector was relentlessly affected. For example, health services were impacted by the numbers of those unwell and necessitating hospitalisations, increasing healthcare staff workloads. Additionally, the increased public health practices that were instigated by countries to limit infection; also increased healthcare providers' workloads, with some countries, health systems, and health care staff struggling to fight against the virus (Rajkumar, 2020; World Health Organisation (WHO), 2020). The outbreak of COVID-19 and its impact on healthcare staff have been linked to mental health concerns, such as signs of fatigue, burnout, anxiety, depression, and fear of cross-infection with viruses (Dobson et al., 2021; Rajkumar, 2020). During the emergency crisis, exhaustion, detachment, increased posttraumatic stress disorder, and insomnia amongst healthcare workers (HCW) during the pandemic (Dobson et al., 2021). Similarly, workload expansion, inadequate personal equipment, and low staff numbers have affected mental and physical wellbeing (Cai et al., 2020; Dobson et al., 2021; Pappa et al., 2020). Hence, frontline nurses are more vulnerable to mental health issues, such as anxiety, depression, and insomnia (Cai et al., 2020; Pappa et al., 2020), and they have faced genuine threats to their physical safety and indirectly to their families (Billings et al., 2021). Before COVID-19, mental health and psychological well-being were already being identified as significant healthcare issues, which was evidenced growing incidence of stress, burnout, depression, alcohol dependence and suicide across the globe (Billings et al., 2021). Hence, COVID-19 has undoubtedly placed frontline HCW at additional risks for mental health problems, such as depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), insomnia, and stress increases (Billings et al., 2021; Cai et al., 2020; Dobson et al., 2021; Pappa et al., 2020). <strong>The purpose of scoping review</strong> To determine the extent of the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of nurses on the frontline. This scoping review studies the consequence of COVID-19 on frontline HCWs in the hospital setting and is primarily focused on nurses. The review includes the study of twenty articles found in the database and reviews its findings on different themes, which are the prevalence of anxiety, depression, stress, and insomnia.