Background: Patients receiving palliative care often face psychological distress, which can be challenging for clinicians to manage. Therefore, reflexive and visual journaling can be used as powerful techniques for clinician selfreflection and personal development. These journals are a form of practice wisdom, providing insights into psychological health in palliative care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To measure the psychological well-being of healthcare workers (HCWs) during this COVID-19 pandemic and examine the experiences of the subgroup of participants who were also HCWs during the 2003 SARS epidemic.
Design: Anonymous online survey adapted from a similar study conducted during the SARS epidemic, disseminated from July 2020 to August 2020.
Setting: Nine healthcare institutions across Singapore ranging from primary care, community care, tertiary care and specialised referral centres.
• The COVID-19 pandemic is a tensile stress test of the robustness of healthcare emergency preparedness measures. • Fear of the unknown, uncertainty, and anxiety are risk factors for burnout and trauma in healthcare workers in the wake of a pandemic. • A reliable and accurate psychological preparedness toolkit for healthcare workers is important in reducing stress and anxiety.
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November 2015
Musical hallucinations are a rare phenomenon that renders appropriate identification and treatment a challenge. This case series describes three women who presented with hearing complex, familiar melodies in the absence of external stimuli on a background of hearing impairment.
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