TY - JOUR ID - 143979 TI - Virtual Short-term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Health Care Providers During COVID-19 Outbreak in Iran JO - Journal of Iranian Medical Council JA - JIMC LA - en SN - 2645-338X AU - Mohammadsadeghi, Homa AU - Shariat, Seyed Vahid AU - Shariati, Behnam AU - Eftekhar Ardebili, Mehrdad AU - Tat, Somayyeh AD - Mental Health Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran AD - Mental Health Research Center, Psychosocial Health Research Institute (PHRI), Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran AD - Mental Health Research Center, Psychosocial Health Research Institute (PHRI), Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran AD - Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Y1 - 2021 PY - 2021 VL - 4 IS - 4 SP - 338 EP - 341 KW - Non DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.18502/jimc.v4i4.8482 N2 - At early stages of COVID-19 pandemic in Iran, it became clear that due to first reports of significant mortality rate of patients (1), the whole society and especially health care system workers were facing an unprecedented situation in modern medicine era caused by a contagion. With regard to medical job settings, along with physical burdens, conditions made by new environmental threats during the pandemic can increase the perceived and felt stress by health care workers at a rate and intensity possibly higher than for other job settings (2).Common examples are fear of contracting the disease or death (For the individual or close relatives), feeling of loneliness in quarantine and discomfort arisen from uncertainty of adopting appropriate treatment and caring procedures (in case of responsibility for COVID-19 patients).  UR - http://www.jimc.ir/article_143979.html L1 - http://www.jimc.ir/article_143979_175ca839cd4ada7f914e03c427d8df55.pdf ER -