Roberto Mediavilla, Mireia Felez-Nobrega, Kerry R McGreevy, Anna Monistrol-Mula, María-Fe Bravo-Ortiz, Carmen Bayón, Iago Giné-Vázquez, Rut Villaescusa, Ainoa Muñoz-Sanjosé, Salvatore Aguilar-Ortiz, Natasha Figueiredo, Pablo Nicaise, A-La Park, Papoula Petri-Romão, Marianna Purgato, Anke B Witteveen, James Underhill, Corrado Barbui, Richard Bryant, Raffael Kalisch, Vincent Lorant, David McDaid, Maria Melchior, Marit Sijbrandij, Josep Maria Haro, Jose Luis Ayuso-Mateos
BACKGROUND: Evidence-based mental health interventions to support healthcare workers (HCWs) in crisis settings are scarce. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the capacity of a mental health intervention in reducing anxiety and depression symptoms in HCWs, relative to enhanced care as usual (eCAU), amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: We conducted an analyst-blind, parallel, multicentre, randomised controlled trial. We recruited HCWs with psychological distress from Madrid and Catalonia (Spain)...
June 2023: BMJ Ment Health