Psychological preparedness for pandemic (COVID-19) management: Perceptions of nurses and nursing students in India

Sailaxmi Gandhi; Maya Sahu; Radhakrishnan Govindan; Prasanthi Nattala; Sangeetha Gandhi; Paulomi M. Sudhir; Rathi Balachandran

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0255772

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Psychological preparedness for pandemic (COVID-19) management: Perceptions of nurses and nursing students in India

Sailaxmi Gandhi,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nursing, National Institute of Mental Health & Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2414-0003

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Maya Sahu ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: mayamonsahu@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Nursing, National Institute of Mental Health & Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3645-0815

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Radhakrishnan Govindan,

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nursing, National Institute of Mental Health & Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2417-2785

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Prasanthi Nattala,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nursing, National Institute of Mental Health & Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Sangeetha Gandhi,

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
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Paulomi M. Sudhir,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Psychology, National Institute of Mental Health & Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Rathi Balachandran

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nursing Division, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of India, New Delhi, India
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Psychological preparedness for pandemic (COVID-19) management: Perceptions of nurses and nursing students in India

Sailaxmi Gandhi,
Maya Sahu,
Radhakrishnan Govindan,
Prasanthi Nattala,
Sangeetha Gandhi,
Paulomi M. Sudhir,
Rathi Balachandran

Published: August 13, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255772

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