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2. Centre for Health Technology and Services Research (CINTESIS), Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, 4200-450 Porto, Portugal
3. Department of Community Medicine, Information and Health Decision Sciences-MEDCIDS, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, 4200-450 Porto, Portugal
Interests: bioethics; medical education; ethics research; human rights; self-care and burnout; mental health of healthcare workers

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2. Department of Community Medicine, Information and Health Decision Sciences-MEDCIDS, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal
3. School of Health of Polytechnic of Porto, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal
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Dear Colleagues,

In the context of the global crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, health professionals in general and medical doctors in particular were the first line of defense in the fight against this disease. Unfortunately, this overload exacerbated the pre-existing weaknesses of the health system, where the exhaustion of its professionals was already a reality.

In this Special Issue, we invite you to contribute with your latest research or reviews regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on physicians’ health, physical and mental, as well as the impact of this distress on the quality of care provided to patients.

We hope that this Special Issue will facilitate a diverse range of research into how physicians’ quality of life was affected by the pandemic and also what lessons might be learned to deal with future catastrophic events. This Special Issue also aims to be a forum for discussion on the ethical implications of medical practice in the context of scarce medical resources.

Dr. Ivone Duarte
Prof. Dr. Rui Nunes
Dr. Luísa Castro
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Keywords

burnout
COVID-19
medical healthcare
psychological health
moral distress
wellbeing
compassion fatigue
exhaustion
healthcare system
medical ethics

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Nurse and Patient Assessments of COVID-19 Care Quality in China: A Comparative Survey Study

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Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(3), 2717; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032717 - 03 Feb 2023

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, the quality of nursing care was a concern due to nurses’ overwhelming workload. A cross-sectional design was conducted to compare perceptions between nurses and patients about the quality of nursing care for COVID-19 patients and to explore factors associated with these perceptions. Data were collected during the COVID-19 pandemic from 17 March to 13 April 2020 in five hospitals in Wuhan, China. Perceptions of care quality were assessed among nurses and patients using the Caring Behaviors Inventory. Nurses rated the quality of caring behaviors higher than patients. Both nurses and patients rated technical caring behaviors at high levels and rated the item related to “spending time with the patient” the lowest, while patients rated it much lower than nurses. Nurses’ sex, participation in ethical training organized by the hospital, professional title, being invited to Wuhan, and length of working experience in years were significantly associated with nurses’ self-evaluated caring behaviors. Moreover, inpatient setting and communication mode were significantly associated with patients’ self-evaluated caring behaviors. Full article

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The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown Measures and COVID-19 Infection on Cognitive Functions: A Review in Healthy and Neurological Populations

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Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(6), 4889; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20064889 - 10 Mar 2023

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The COVID-19 pandemic severely affected people’s mental health all over the world. This review aims to present a comprehensive overview of the literature related to the effects of COVID-19 lockdown measures and COVID-19 infection on cognitive functioning in both healthy people and people with neurological conditions by considering only standardized tests. We performed a narrative review of the literature via two databases, PUBMED and SCOPUS, from December 2019 to December 2022. In total, 62 out of 1356 articles were selected and organized into three time periods: short-term (1–4 months), medium-term (5–8 months), and long-term (9–12 months), according to the time in which the tests were performed. Regardless of the time period, most studies showed a general worsening in cognitive performance in people with neurological conditions due to COVID-19 lockdown measures and in healthy individuals recovered from COVID-19 infection. Our review is the first to highlight the importance of considering standardized tests as reliable measures to quantify the presence of cognitive deficits due to COVID-19. Indeed, we believe that they provide an objective measure of the cognitive difficulties encountered in the different populations, while allowing clinicians to plan rehabilitation treatments that can be of great help to many patients who still, nowadays, experience post-COVID-19 symptoms. Full article

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