The role of resilience and self-efficacy in promoting mental health of medical staff during of the COVID-19 pandemic: A narrative review

During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospital staff experienced severe anxiety due to insomnia, burnout, and work stress, which reduced their mental health. In this regard, the present study aimed to investigate the role of resilience and self-efficacy in promoting the mental health of medical staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This review was done by searching in the titles and abstracts of articles published in reputable international scientific databases such as Google Scholar, PubMed, Science Direct, and Scopus from February 2020 to July 2021. Finally, 26 articles were selected for comprehensive review and data extraction. The PRISMA checklist was used to review and control the quality of articles.

Nurses and physicians with high resilience and self-efficacy were in good mental health. Factors such as age, gender, marital status, work history, and working in the COVID-19 wards affected the resilience and self-efficacy of the medical staff during the outbreak of COVID-19. Additionally, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, insomnia, and burnout were also the most common disorders caused by COVID-19 in nurses and physicians in the pandemic.

Since we also see the occurrence of widespread psychological disorders such as PTSD and burnout in the medical staff of hospitals in the post-corona era, it is necessary to organize workshops and conferences to increase the resilience and self-efficacy of medical staff.