Background: There is evidence of a high psychological toll from the COVID-19 pandemic in healthcare workers. This paper was aimed at conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies reporting levels of depression among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 and estimating the pooled prevalence of depression. Methods: We searched for cross-sectional studies listed on PubMed from 1 December 2019 to 15 September 2020 that reported prevalence of depression in healthcare workers, nurses, medical doctors, and COVID-19 frontline professionals. The pooled proportions of depression were calculated with random effects models. Results: We identified 57 studies from seventeen countries. The pooled prevalence of depression in healthcare workers was 24% (95% CI: 20–28%), 25% for nurses (95% CI: 18–33%), 24% for medical doctors (95% CI: 16–31%), and 43% for frontline professionals (95% CI: 28–59%). Conclusions: The proportion of depression in nurses and medical doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic was similar to that found in the general population as previously reported in other meta-analyses conducted with smaller numbers of studies. Importantly, almost half of the frontline healthcare workers showed increased levels of depression. There is need for a comprehensive, international response to prevent and treat common mental health problems in healthcare workers.
【저자키워드】 COVID-19, Nurses, Depressive symptoms, frontline, medical doctors, pooled prevalence, 【초록키워드】 Meta-analysis, Depression, COVID-19 pandemic, systematic review, healthcare worker, Prevalence, cross-sectional study, healthcare, International, Psychological, General population, Evidence, Nurse, professionals, treat, professional, random effect, Medical doctor, Prevent, proportion, reported, conducted, calculated, searched, frontline healthcare worker, mental health problem, 【제목키워드】 review, worker,