Exposure to moral stressors and associated outcomes in healthcare workers: prevalence, correlates, and impact on job attrition.

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Healthcare workers (HCWs) often experience morally challenging situations in their workplaces that may contribute to job turnover and compromised well-being. This study aimed to characterize the nature and frequency of moral stressors experienced by HCWs during the COVID-19 pandemic, examine their influence on psychosocial-spiritual factors, and capture the impact of such factors and related moral stressors on HCWs' self-reported job attrition intentions.Methods: A sample of 1204 Canadian HCWs were included in the analysis through a web-based survey platform whereby work-related factors (e.g. years spent working as HCW, providing care to COVID-19 patients), moral distress (captured by MMD-HP), moral injury (captured by MIOS), mental health symptomatology, and jo

SUBMITTER: Nazarov A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10860421 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature