Digital Interventions for Stress Among Frontline Health Care Workers: Results From a Pilot Feasibility Cohort Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the mental health of health care workers, increasing the rates of stress, moral distress (MD), and moral injury (MI). Virtual reality (VR) is a useful tool for studying MD and MI because it can effectively elicit psychophysiological responses, is customizable, and permits the controlled study of participants in real time.

Objective

This study aims to investigate the feasibility of using an intervention comprising a VR scenario and an educational video to examine MD among health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic and to use our mobile app for longitudinal monitoring of stress, MD, and MI after the intervention.

Methods

We recruited 15 participants for a compound intervention consisting of a VR scenario followed by

SUBMITTER: Espinola CW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10783335 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature