id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-308762-lxhq9ga4 Sharma, Manoj Kumar Researcher Burnout: An Overlooked Aspect in Mental Health Research in times of COVID-19 2020-08-25 .txt text/plain 1671 80 44 The COVID-19 related lockdown has also decreased the accessibility to research participants, in addition to existing challenges such as funding not coming through in time, the pressure to achieve results, to write grants, revise grant applications, and face non-acceptance of research grants proposals. The on-going uncertain situations concerning COVID-19 and uncertainties related to research progress appear to be a major contributor towards stress which is likely manifesting itself in researchers and their teams in terms of sleep disturbance, poor appetite, increased interpersonal problems, decreased motivation to continue with research demands, procrastination, absence of other offline leisure activities and experiencing guilt feelings for not completing work. Besides, a mental health pandemic may emerge which results from the experience of trauma, grief, social isolation, loneliness and as well from secondary impact of COVID-19 related quarantine and its associations with abrupt changes in lifestyle. ./cache/cord-308762-lxhq9ga4.txt ./txt/cord-308762-lxhq9ga4.txt