Emotional Fatigue, Elevated Anxiety Symptoms, and Sustained Psychological Distress in Frontline Medical Staff and Nurses Working with COVID-19 Patients.

Based on an in-depth survey of the literature, the purpose of the paper is to explore emotional fatigue, elevated anxiety symptoms, and sustained psychological distress in frontline medical staff and nurses working with COVID-19 patients. Using and replicating data from APIC, BMA, Bozdağ and Ergün (2020), Gorini et al. (2020), IPPR, The Irish COVID-19 Psychological Survey, MHA, NNU, Rek et al. (2020), SEIU, and YouGov, we performed analyses and made estimates regarding how attending to suspected or confirmed COVID-19 patients is related to psychological distress, illness fears, elevated anxiety symptoms, burnout syndrome, clinically significant depression, and emotional fatigue in frontline healthcare workers. Descriptive statistics of compiled data from the completed surveys were calculated when appropriate [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]