This study therefore addresses burnout among the reserve Israeli Home Front Command (hence HFC) medical staff in order to begin closing the gap in the literature. Another study conducted in Italy during the first week of quarantine ( N = 5,683) found that more than 40% suffered mental distress (measured by SCL-90-R) and about 30% showed clinically significant posttraumatic stress symptoms ( Marazziti et al., 2020).īurnout, an important outcome of intense and continuous stress ( Maslach and Leiter, 2016), was only rarely examined in the context of COVID-19 ( Hartzband and Groopman, 2020 Wu et al., 2020). In the above-mentioned reports, the rates in Singapore, although high, were lower than in China this may be due to the difference between the two countries in the exposure rate of healthcare workers to carriers of the virus. These results are in line with a review of existing COVID-19 literature ( Rajkumar, 2020).
Of 470 healthcare workers in Singapore who were caring for patients with COVID-19, 14.5% screened positive for anxiety, 8.9% for depression and 7.7% for clinical concern of PTSD ( Tan et al., 2020). In general, mental distress was reported by 71.5% of the participants ( Lai et al., 2020). For example, a study conducted among 1,257 healthcare workers from 34 hospitals in China during COVID-19 revealed high levels of symptoms of depression (50.4% of the sample), anxiety (44.6%) and insomnia (34.0%). Studies conducted on healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic found that they are experiencing mental distress ( Ayanian, 2020 Chen et al.
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