Mental Health Challenges Faced by Healthcare Workers: A Literature Review

SEARCH STRATEGY

Questions
P (patient or population): population focused upon in this research is healthcare workers
I (Intervention): Flexible working hours
C (Comparison): Continuous monitoring of mental health patients
O (Outcomes): Enhanced mental health, factors of degrading mental health reduced.
 Can mental health of healthcare workers be enhanced by flexible working hours?
 What is the impact of staff mental health on service provision?
 What are the ways in which ways managers can support staff with poor mental health?
Concepts and Keywords
Table 1: Keywords
Mental heath
Challenges
Healthcare workers
Wellbeing
Management
Flexible working hours
Monitoring health
Degrading mental health
Key words and search strategy
For searching relevant literature Boolean strategy will be used.
Concept 1 Concept 2 Concept 3 Concept 4
Mental health AND
Healthcare workers
Mental health AND
challenges
Healthcare workers
AND wellbeing
Mental health
challenges AND
management
List of databases to be searched
Four main databases searched for this research study are as follows: Google Scholar, Scopus,
Cinahl, and Medline.
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Inclusion and Exclusion criteria
Table 2: inclusion and exclusion criteria
Inclusion Criteria Exclusion criteria
 All the studies that were written in English
language were selected
 All the studies that consisted of two or
more than two key words were selected
 All the recent studied done after 2016 were
only selected
 Studies that did not have any kind of
publisher were also excluded
 None of the studies older than 2016 were
selected for the studies
Search record
Databases searched for finding appropriate articles are: google Scholar, Scopus, Cinahl, Medline
Database
searched
Search
words
Search
Strategy
Results Comments
Google
Scholar
Mental health
Healthcare
workers
Boolean AND
Truncation*
20 4 results were
useful and
selected
Scopus Mental health
challenges
Boolean AND
Truncation*
10 2 results were
useful and
selected
Cinahl Healthcare
workers
wellbeing
Boolean AND
Truncation*
15 2 results were
useful and
selected
Medline Mental health
challenges
management
Boolean AND
Truncation*
15 1 results were
useful and
selected
Summary of studies
Summary of all the studies have been explained below in Appendix
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