Qualitative interview study of strategies to support healthcare personnel mental health through an occupational health lens.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Employee Occupational Health ('occupational health') clinicians have expansive perspectives of the experience of healthcare personnel. Integrating mental health into the purview of occupational health is a newer approach that could combat historical limitations of healthcare personnel mental health programmes, which have been isolated and underused.

Objective

We aimed to document innovation and opportunities for supporting healthcare personnel mental health through occupational health clinicians. This work was part of a national qualitative needs assessment of employee occupational health clinicians during COVID-19 who were very much at the centre of organisational responses.

Design

This qualitative needs assessment included key informant interviews obtaine

SUBMITTER: Brown-Johnson C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10806949 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature