Articles: pandemics.
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To determine whether the increased restrictions, isolation and stressors associated with COVID-19 led to an increase in rates or severity of self-immolation burn injuries. ⋯ 2020 saw an increase in both the frequency and severity of self-inflicted burn injuries in New South Wales, with psychiatric illness a major factor.
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Southern medical journal · Jun 2022
Is It All COVID-19? Resident Distress and Reasons for It in 2020.
For resident wellness, it is important to understand and discern the relative contributions of each factor to resident stress. ⋯ Both positive and negative changes in resident stress status occurred during the pandemic period. Traditional residency stressors remained and because all of the factors were affected by both the pandemic and residency training, efforts to mitigate the negative effects of both need to continue.