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High levels of psychosocial distress among Australian frontline healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional survey

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  • Natasha Smallwood Department of Respiratory Medicine, Alfred Hospital, Prahran, Victoria, AustraliaDepartment of Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, Central Clinical School, Alfred Hospital, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Leila Karimi School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaSchool of Medicine and Healthcare Management, Caucasus University, Tbilisi, Georgia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Marie Bismark Department of Psychiatry, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, AustraliaDepartment of Public Health Law, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Mark Putland Department of Emergency Services, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, AustraliaDepartment of Critical Care, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Douglas Johnson Departments of General Medicine and Infectious Diseases, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, AustraliaDepartment of Medicine, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Shyamali Chandrika Dharmage Allergy and Lung Health Unit, School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Elizabeth Barson Department of Allied Health, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Nicola Atkin Parkville Integrated Palliative Care Service, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, AustraliaSir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Claire Long Department of Geriatric Medicine, Western Health, Footscray, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Irene Ng Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Management, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, AustraliaCentre for Integrated Critical Care, Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Anne Holland Department of Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, Central Clinical School, Alfred Hospital, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaDepartment of Physiotherapy, Alfred Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jane E Munro Rheumatology Unit, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, AustraliaArthritis and Rheumatology, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Irani Thevarajan Department of Infectious Diseases, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Cara Moore Department of Intensive Care Medicine, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Anthony McGillion School of Nursing and Midwifery, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Debra Sandford Royal Adelaide Hospital, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Karen Willis College of Health and Biomedicine, Victoria University, Footscray, Victoria, AustraliaDivision of Critical Care and Investigative Services, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Natasha Smallwood; natasha.smallwood{at}monash.edu.au
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Smallwood N, Karimi L, Bismark M, et al
High levels of psychosocial distress among Australian frontline healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional survey
General Psychiatry 2021;34:e100577. doi: 10.1136/gpsych-2021-100577

Publication history

  • Received May 20, 2021
  • Accepted August 3, 2021
  • First published September 6, 2021.
Online issue publication 
September 06, 2021

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