Healio (11/16, Gramigna) reports, “Healthcare workers with prior work experience during the 2003 SARS outbreak did not have worse mental health outcomes during COVID-19 compared with those without this experience,” investigators concluded after examining “mental health outcomes of 3,852 participants who worked during the COVID-19 pandemic and the SARS outbreak via the Impact of Events Scale-Revised,” the “generalized anxiety disorder …questionnaire and patient health questionnaire.” The findings were published online Nov. 10 in PLOS One.
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— “Health care workers from 2003 SARS outbreak more resilient during COVID-19 “Joe Gramigna, Healio, November 16, 2021