The myth of psychological debriefings during the corona pandemic

摘要

During the corona pandemic, health care personnel can encounter stressful events such as: an in- creased exposure to deceased people, an overwhelming workload, and no time to recover [1,2]. After such events, psychological debriefing moments are often organized and recommended in some scientific literature (eg, Walton, Murray, and Christian [1]; Khan, et al [2]). Even more so, psycho- logical debriefings are found to be so common sense, that authors sometimes leave out references that provide the supportive background literature regarding the effectiveness of such debriefings (eg, Walton, Murray, & Christian [1]). Which is not surprising, as there is hardly any evidence for the effectiveness of psychological debriefings [3-5].