A Comprehensive Systematic Review of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Healthcare

Healthcare professionals must deal with a surge of patients transferred to areas outside their clinical specialization and given heavy workloads due to the COVID-19 epidemic. There is no denying their significance in a crisis. However, they were under intense physical and psychological strain in this setting, which led to infection and disease of the mind. An accurate, detailed, and objective assessment of their experiences, beliefs, and current state is necessary for treating burnout, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), insomnia, depression, and coronavirus infection. To synthesize the data on the experiences of healthcare workers with the coronavirus and its consequences on their psychological well-being and infection during pandemics, this protocol will conduct a mixed-methods systematic review. Identify the extent and nature of changes in the use of healthcare during the COVID-19 outbreak.

The studies that met the criteria compared the COVID-19 pandemic’s service use to at least one comparable period in the prior year. Visits, admissions, diagnoses, and treatments were among the services offered, and studies that only examined COVID-19 individuals or were conducted at a single centre were removed. The following topics will be accepted: COVID-19 infection of healthcare personnel; experience; viewpoint; effect; burnout; PTSD; anxiety; depression; insomnia; Middle East respiratory ailment. The databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, Web of Science, and PubMed) will be searched from conception until December 30, 2021. Bias risk was evaluated using the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organization of Care instrument and the Risk of Bias in Non-Randomized Studies of Interventions tool. The results were examined using descriptive statistics, graphical representations, and narrative synthesis. The top result was a shift in service usage from the pre-pandemic to the pandemic periods. As a byproduct, the percentage of patients who sought medical attention and had a milder or more severe disease altered (e.g., triage scores).

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