Research & Guidance
What does research and guidance tell us about responding to Covid19?
The advice on this website is informed by research and evidence-based practice in the fields of individual and organisational resilience and responding to major incidents.
There are consistent themes and messages about the need for:
- Good, clear, timely, communication and training
- Fostering team spirit and cohesion
- Promoting wellbeing through flexible, responsive resourcing
- High quality psychological and wellbeing services for staff
Ref: The King’s Fund COVID Trauma Response Group – guidance for planning early interventions
The following research papers are either directly related to the mental health response in COVID-19, or are related as they are findings from the SARS epidemic. We have grouped these papers into themes, so they are easily accessible. .
We’ll update it as we find more, so please share any others that you have found helpful. Thank you
International Guidelines on COVID-19
Immediate guidance targeted at management/ planners
- NES Psychological First Aid and Debriefing – COVID-19.
- COVID Trauma Response Working Group – Rapid Guidance 2020.
- COVID Trauma Response Working Group – COVID-19 Mental Health Screen-and-Treat Guidance.
- BPS Psychological needs of healthcare staff.
- Optimising staff preparedness, wellbeing and functioning during the COVID-19 pandemic (Kings College London).
- RCP Going for Growth: An Outline Staff Recovery Plan post-COVID19.
- CSTS 2020 Sustaining the wellbeing of healthcare personnel during coronavirus.
Studies reviewing the evidence and making subsequent recommendations for management/ planners
- Brooks et al (2018). A Systematic, thematic review of social and occupational factors associated with psychological outcomes in healthcare employees during an infectious disease outbreak.
- Brooks et al (2019). Traumatic stress within disaster-exposed populations.
- Greenberg et al (2020). Managing the mental health challenges faced by health care workers during the covid-19 pandemic.
- Maunder et al (2008). Applying the Lessons of SARS to Pandemic Influenza.
- Walton et al (2020). Mental health care for medical staff and affiliated health care workers during COVID pandemic.
- Billings et al (2020). Healthcare workers’ experiences of working on the frontline and views about support during COVID-19 and comparable pandemics: A rapid review and meta-synthesis.
International literature on Mental Health and COVID-19
- Hao et al (2020). Do psychiatric patients experience more psychiatric symptoms during CV19 pandemic and lockdown?
- Lai et al (2020). Factors associated with mental health outcome among health workers exposed to coronavirus 2019.
- Chen et al (2020). Mental health care for medical staff in China during COVID19 outbreak.
- Billings et al (2020). Healthcare workers’ experiences of working on the frontline and views about support during COVID-19 and comparable pandemics: A rapid review and meta-synthesis.
International literature on Mental Health and SARS
- Wu et al (2009). The Psychological Impact of the SARS Epidemic on Hospital Employees in China- Exposure, Risk Perception, and Altruistic Acceptance of Risk.
- McAlonan et al (2007) Immediate and Sustained Psychological Impact of an Emerging Infectious Disease Outbreak on Health Care Workers.
- Marjanovic et al (2007). The relevance of psychosocial variables and working conditions in predicting nurses coping strategies.
- Wong et al (2007). How to provide an effective primary health care in fighting against severe acute respiratory syndrome- the experiences of two cities.
- Maunder et al (2006). Long-term psychological and occupational effects of providing hospital healthcare during SARS outbreak.
- Chen et al (2005). Psychological Distress of Nurses in Taiwan Who Worked During the Outbreak of SARS.
- Chong et al (2004). Psychological impact of severe acute respiratory syndrome on health workers in a tertiary hospital.
- Nickell et al (2004). Psychosocial effects of SARS on hospital staff survey of a large tertiary care institution.
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