Motivation and hesitation of healthcare workers to work during the H1N1 influenza and COVID-19 pandemics: An exploratory single-centered repeated cross-sectional study.

Aim: Pandemics of life-threatening viruses have detrimental impacts on the motivation of healthcare workers to work. However, no study has examined this impact during different pandemics with the same setting and design. This study aimed to reveal similarities and differences in factors associated with willingness and hesitation to work between two recent pandemics, H1N1 influenza and COVID-19, in the same hospital, using the same questionnaire.

The sustained psychological impact of coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on hospital workers 2 years after the outbreak: a repeated cross-sectional study in Kobe.

Background: Healthcare workers who are exposed to coronavirus disease 2019 are psychologically distressed. This study aimed to evaluate the mental health outcomes of hospital workers 2 years after the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 and to identify changes in the stress of hospital workers and predicted risk factors.

Methods: This survey was conducted 2 years after the initial evaluation performed under the first emergency declaration of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic among hospital workers at the same hospital in an ordinance-designated city in Japan from June to July 2022.

COVID-19 delirium and encephalopathy: Pathophysiology assumed in the first 3 years of the ongoing pandemic.

Background: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues to spread worldwide. It has a high rate of delirium, even in young patients without comorbidities. Infected patients required isolation because of the high infectivity and virulence of COVID-19.

Psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospital workers in Kobe: A cross-sectional survey.

Aim: Many health-care workers exposed to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are psychologically distressed. This study aimed to investigate the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospital workers under the emergency declaration in Japan.

Methods: This cross-sectional, survey-based study collected sociodemographic data and responses to 19 stress-related questions and the Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R), which measures post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, from all 3217 staff members at Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital from April 16, 2020 to June 8, 2020.