Life or Livelihood? Mental Health Concerns for Quarantine Hotel Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Frontiers in Psychology

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Yi-Man Teng¹  Kun-Shan Wu²  Kuan-Ling Lin³ 

[1] College of Modern Management, Yango University;Department of Business Administration, Tamkang University;College of Child Development and Education, Yango University

关键词: COVID-19;    quarantine hotel workers;    mental health;    quarantine hotel;    mental health assistance programs;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02168

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

A novel coronavirus pneumonia, known as COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019), spread rapidlyaround the globe. The worldwide outbreak of pandemic had apprehended more than half of thepopulation of the world that has caused immense damage to human health and economic and sociallife (Fareed et al., 2020; Shehzad et al., 2020). It paused the majority of global economic activities,causing major impacts on most industries, particularly the hospitality and leisure industry. As aresult, hotels, viewed as a declining industry, have suffered a staggering drop in average occupancy(ATOMIZE, 2020). It is not only hotels in Western countries affected (Djeebet, 2020), the Chinesehotel industry has also been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak (Zhang et al., 2020). Amajor dilemma is the financial burden of keeping the hotel open vs. many people losing their jobsif it closes. With such severe impacts, the hospitality industry must learn to function in a new way.With positive cases of COVID-19 escalating, hospitals face problems with overcrowdingand insufficient isolation space (Feng and Cheng, 2020). In addition, there is increasing worryfrom frontline health care workers about contracting the virus and contaminating loved ones(Rosemberg, 2020). A quarantine hotel is one possible solution to address both these issues. Inaddition, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, more countries require both citizens and foreignvisitors arriving from abroad to enter a mandatory 14-day quarantine period within centralizedobservation centers or at home. Because of the shortage of quarantine infrastructure, some hotelshave been commandeered by governments to be quarantine hotels.

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