Department of Statistics, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Samara University, Semera, Ethiopia
Department of Nursing, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Samara University, Semera, Ethiopia.
BMJ Open. 2023 Jun 19;13(6):e072337. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-072337.
COVID-19 pandemic is a global health problem. In Africa, healthcare professionals face mental health problems due to COVID-19. But little was done on the prevalence of mental disorders among healthcare professionals during COVID-19 in Africa. This umbrella review of meta-analysis aimed to provide the pooled prevalence of anxiety, depression, stress, suicide, demoralisation and insomnia during COVID-19 pandemic in Africa.
We will search the African Journals Online, MedRxiv, PubMed and Google Scholar to identify studies published from the occurrence of the pandemic to March 2023. Systematic review and meta-analysis studies assessing mental health problems among healthcare professionals in Africa will be considered. The outcomes of interest include prevalence of mental health problems on healthcare professionals following COVID-19. Two researchers will extract data and execute quality assessment independently. The Joanna Briggs Institute critical appraisal checklist will be used to assess the quality of studies. Stata V.16.0 software will be used for statistical analysis. The I² and Cochran's Q-statistics will be used for analysis of heterogeneity. Publication bias will be examined by DOI plot and Luis Furuya Kanamori (LFK) index.
Ethical approval and informed consent are not required as this is a literature review. The final results will be published in a peer-reviewed journal and presented at relevant conferences.
CRD42022383939.
COVID-19 大流行是一个全球性的健康问题。在非洲，医护人员因 COVID-19 面临心理健康问题。但在 COVID-19 期间，非洲医护人员的精神障碍患病率方面几乎没有任何研究。本项汇总分析的荟萃分析旨在提供 COVID-19 大流行期间非洲医护人员焦虑、抑郁、压力、自杀、士气低落和失眠的患病率汇总数据。
我们将从大流行发生到 2023 年 3 月在非洲期刊在线、MedRxiv、PubMed 和谷歌学术上搜索发表的研究。将考虑评估非洲医护人员心理健康问题的系统评价和荟萃分析研究。感兴趣的结果包括 COVID-19 后医护人员心理健康问题的患病率。两位研究人员将独立提取数据并进行质量评估。将使用 Joanna Briggs 研究所批判性评估清单评估研究质量。Stata V.16.0 软件将用于统计分析。I² 和 Cochrane's Q 统计量将用于分析异质性。通过 DOI 图和 Luis Furuya Kanamori (LFK) 指数检查发表偏倚。
由于这是一项文献综述，因此不需要伦理批准和知情同意。最终结果将发表在同行评议的期刊上，并在相关会议上展示。
PROSPERO 注册号：CRD42022383939。
