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cord-283177-qwinggg4	Viswanathan, Ramaswamy	Support Groups and Individual Mental Health Care via Video Conferencing for Frontline Clinicians during the COVID-19 Pandemic	2020-06-23		.txt	text/plain	2890	160	56	title: Support Groups and Individual Mental Health Care via Video Conferencing for Frontline Clinicians during the COVID-19 Pandemic METHODS: We developed recurring peer support groups via videoconferencing and telephone for physicians, resident physicians, and nursing staff, focusing on issues and emotions related to their frontline clinical work with COVID patients in our medical center which was designated as a COVID-only hospital by the state. CONCLUSIONS: Our experience suggests that this method of offering telehealth peer support groups and individual counseling is a useful model for other centers to adapt, to emotionally support frontline clinical workers in this ongoing worldwide crisis. From late March 2020, our department of psychiatry began offering support group and individual video-conference sessions to help our frontline attending physicians, resident physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals, and students. We estimate that about 40 attending physicians, 40 residents, and 50 nurses, all frontline healthcare professionals, have participated in the group sessions, and 57 people have used the individual sessions.	./cache/cord-283177-qwinggg4.txt	./txt/cord-283177-qwinggg4.txt