Supporting resilience and well-being in health and social care professionals during pandemics.

Commentary on: Pollock A, Campbell P, Cheyne J, et al . Interventions to support the resilience and mental health of frontline health and social care professionals during and a disease outbreak, epidemic or pandemic: a mixed methods systematic review. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2020; 11: CD013779. Pandemics place frontline workers at high risk of mental illness. During the COVID-19 pandemic, 30% of healthcare workers reported high levels of acute traumatic stress, depression, anxiety, sleep disturbance and alcohol use disorder.1 Antecedents of mental illness include rapidly changing workload and context, powerlessness, limited access to resources (ie, personal protective equipment) and …