COVID-19's crushing mental health toll on health care workers: Beyond its devastating physical effects, the pandemic has unleashed a mental health crisis marked by anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and even suicide. Here, in part 1 of a 2-part series, we examine the growing effort to identify and alleviate the fallout for health care workers

MeSH terms

• Anxiety / epidemiology
• Anxiety / prevention & control
• Anxiety / psychology
• Betacoronavirus / isolation & purification
• Betacoronavirus / pathogenicity
• Burnout, Professional / epidemiology*
• Burnout, Professional / etiology
• Burnout, Professional / prevention & control
• COVID-19
• COVID-19 Testing
• Clinical Laboratory Techniques / statistics & numerical data
• Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis
• Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
• Coronavirus Infections / transmission
• Coronavirus Infections / virology
• Depression / epidemiology
• Depression / prevention & control
• Depression / psychology
• Health Personnel / psychology*
• Humans
• Infection Control / standards
• Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional / prevention & control
• Mental Health / statistics & numerical data*
• Mental Health Services / organization & administration
• Pandemics
• Personal Protective Equipment / supply & distribution
• Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis
• Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
• Pneumonia, Viral / transmission
• Pneumonia, Viral / virology
• Psychosocial Support Systems
• SARS-CoV-2
• Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / epidemiology
• Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / psychology
• Suicide / psychology
• Suicide / statistics & numerical data
• Suicide Prevention
• United States / epidemiology
• Workload / psychology*