Maintaining operability at a high personal cost - a mixed method study on maternal healthcare workers' experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The COVID-19 pandemic forced leaders and employees in health care services to take difficult decisions to manage risks associated with employee health and the organizations' functioning. This study aims to identify the changes in employee working routines, job demands, and job resources within Swedish maternal healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how these changes affected workload and health.

Methods

Data were derived from the longitudinal COPE Staff study involving midwives and physicians within maternal healthcare. Three focus group discussions with midwives and physicians (n = 13), and open-ended survey responses (n = 604) during the third wave of the pandemic (January to May 2021) were analyzed using deductive content analysis based on the Job Deman

SUBMITTER: Akerstrom M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11776309 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature