What Have Hospital Social Workers Been Prepared for COVID-19 from SARS, MERS, and H1N1?
What Have Hospital Social Workers Been Prepared for COVID-19 from SARS, MERS, and H1N1?
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DOI:
10.1093/hsw/hlaa017
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发表时间:
2020-08-01
影响因子:
1.5
通讯作者:
Cheung, Johnson Chun-Sing
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作者:
Cheung, Johnson Chun-Sing
At the time of writing this column, there is an outbreak of a deadly novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Hubei Province of China and many places across the world. More people are confirmed to be infected or dead every day, and academia is working around the clock to fight against the virus. In addition to those in Mainland China, citizens in peripheral regions are zealously searching for surgical masks to protect themselves from the invisible virus. However, like the fatal virus that cannot be seen, fear and desperation are inconspicuous yet have already spread far and wide.Hospital social workers are not without experience in handling outbreaks. We have fought a number of fatal respiratory diseases that can be spread through droplets in the air. I performed a systematic search of terms related to these outbreaks among 43 major social work journals listed in the latest 2018 Journal Citation Reports from 2000 to 2020. The search was conducted in the Web of Science database, using the following search strategy (Taylor, Wylie, Dempster, & Don-nelly, 2007): The search terms used were (pandemic* OR epidemic* OR outbreak OR Coronavirus OR Covid* OR Middle East respiratory syndrome OR MERS* OR Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome OR SARS* OR influenza). A list of 147 studies was initially found, but it included a number of articles that were not related to the outbreak of respiratory disease. After a manual screening of all the articles’ titles and abstracts, only 14 articles (see Table 1) were deemed relevant. Half of these were conceptual articles, and the other half were research articles. Six were qualitative studies; only one quantitative research article on this topic was identified, which