Psychological Distress, Depression, Anxiety, and Burnout among International Humanitarian Aid Workers: A Longitudinal Study

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Barbara Lopes Cardozo · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Carol Gotway Crawford · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Cynthia B. Eriksson · Fuller Theological Seminary

Julia Zhu · Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services

Miriam Lewis Sabin · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Alastair Ager

David W. Foy · Pepperdine University

Abstract

When recruiting and preparing aid workers for deployment, organizations should consider history of mental illness and take steps to decrease chronic stressors, and strengthen social support networks.

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Resilience and Mental Health Migration, Health and Trauma Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout

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Published in: PLoS ONE

Volume 7, Issue 9, pp. e44948-e44948

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044948

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Psychological Distress, Depression, Anxiety, and Burnout among International Humanitarian Aid Workers: A Longitudinal Study

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