Factors Associated with Mental Health Outcomes in Emergency Department Healthcare Workers on the Frontlines of the COVID-19 Pandemic

INTRODUCTION The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020. Pandemics can inflict a broad spectrum of psychological effects on healthcare workers (HCWs).[1,2] These mental health problems can lead to long‐term psychological implications such as major depressive disorder and post‐traumatic symptoms, as seen during the outbreaks of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Ebola virus disease.[3,4]