Covid-19: healthcare students face unique mental health challenges
Christopher A. Smith
Abstract
Investigating the exacerbating and mitigating factors that affect healthcare professionals’ mental health in pandemics is important, but Gold’s editorial overlooks a distinct subgroup in the clinical environment: healthcare students.1 Healthcare students share many risk factors with staff; they are also affected by shortages of personal protective equipment, and many have children. But students face unique problems that their professional colleagues do not. Student income is often dependent on maintenance loans, and many report resulting financial …
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Mental health2019-20 coronavirus outbreakMental healthcareSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)Face (sociological concept)Health carePsychologyMedicineVirologyPsychiatrySociologyPolitical scienceInfectious disease (medical specialty)LawOutbreakPathologySocial scienceDiseaseHealthcare professionals’ stress and burnoutCOVID-19 and Mental HealthCOVID-19 and healthcare impacts