Cheung 2015.

Study characteristics
Methods	Design: case study (field report) Country: Liberia Study aim: to summarise some of the psychosocial issues in the field and to offer some suggestions for dealing with these issues Study recruitment details: study author was deployed as an International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies psychosocial delegate to Liberia for the EVD outbreak in July and August 2014. Part of the role was to provide psychosocial support for HCWs. Setting: community Epidemic/pandemic disease: EVD Phase of disease outbreak: during the pandemic
Participants	Total study population: not reported Inclusion criteria: not reported Exclusion criteria: not reported Type (profession) of staff: "frontline local and overseas workers" Length of time in the profession: not reported Previous experience of working in the frontline during an epidemic/pandemic: not reported Details of who the frontline staff were providing care for: patients, families, members of the local and aid workers
Interventions	1. Psychosocial support: (n = not reported) Type of intervention: psychological support interventions Materials: Procedures: psychosocial well‐being workshops, and individual consultations were arranged for those who were in particular distress. Techniques used included psycho‐education on stress reactions and coping and mindfulness exercises. The study author also describes a psychosocial training of trainers programme, which included teaching PFA (adapted from WHO 2014b), safe burial training, talking about stress reactions for HCWs they might experience, ways to cope with these stressors and also the peer support, plus a brief session to "sensitise the frontline workers, including those who are responsible for contact tracing, health education and potential psychosocial support through telephone hotlines, about local perceptions and rumours related to the current outbreak". Provided by: psychosocial delegate Delivery: individual and group sessions, face‐to‐face Regimen: not reported Tailoring: yes ‐ personalised and tailored for each HCW Modification: not reported Adherence: not reported Details of any adverse events/unintended consequences: not reported
Outcomes	Outcomes: descriptions of fear among HCWs, stress, and stigmatisation Data collection: field report so data collection on‐going
Funding	Funding statement: not reported Conflict of interest: not reported
Notes	Included in the review of qualitative evidence synthesis. Classified as a 'descriptive study', as this was a commentary relating to an intervention. Methodological assessment: assessed using WEIRD tool Overall assessment: major limitations. For details of assessment see Table 10, and for support for judgements see Appendix 14.