Health and social care workers experiences of coping while working in the frontline during the COVID-19 pandemic: One year on.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The unprecedented pressure of working on the frontline during the Covid-19 pandemic had a demonstrable impact on the mental health and wellbeing of health and social care workers in the early stages of the pandemic, however, less research has focused on workers' experiences over the longer course of the pandemic.

Aims

We set out to develop an explanatory model of the processes that helped and hindered the coping of HSCWs working over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Method

Twenty HSCWs based in the UK took part in the study. They completed semi-structured interviews 12-18 months after the peak of the first wave in the UK. Interviews were transcribed and analysed using grounded theory methodology.

Results

The analysis identified eleven theoretical

SUBMITTER: Soubra K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10096225 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature