the role of resilience and emotion regulation in psychological distress of hospital staff during the covid-19 pandemic: a systematic review study

Background: during the covid-2019 pandemic, the hospital staff was among the first to dealwith this problem. because of the high workload, the medical staff may experience psychologicaldistress. in this regard, the present study was conducted to investigate the role of resilienceand emotion regulation in managing the psychological distress of hospital staff during thecovid-2019 pandemic.methods: in the present study, we searched english databases, such as google scholar, pubmed,scopus, sciencedirect, and iranian databases, such as iranian databases of scientific informationdatabase (sid), iranian publications (magiran), and iranian medical sciences articles fromfebruary 2020 to july 2021 with using the keywords of “coronavirus 2019”, “covid-19”,“depression”, “anxiety”, “stress”, “resilience”, “emotion regulation”, “mental health”, “medicalstaff”, and “psychological distress”. we also used the prisma (the preferred reporting items forsystematic reviews and meta-analysis) checklist to review and control the quality of the articles.results: studies have shown that resilience and emotion regulation strategies positively affectnurses, physicians, hospital staff, and medical students during the covid-19 pandemic.good resilience and using adaptive emotion regulation strategies have reduced their anxiety,depression, insomnia, and fear, which results in increased psychological well-being during thecovid-19 pandemic.conclusion: based on the reviewed articles, we found that covid-19 can affect various aspectsof the mental health of hospital staff. given that covid-19 is still mutating and it is impossibleto predict a specific time for the end of this deadly virus, medical staff must receive the necessarytraining to improve resilience and emotion regulation strategies.