Navigating dual crises: mental health of Czech health care workers during the Ukrainian refugee influx and COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT: ABSTRACTBackground: European health care workers recently experienced serious challenges to their mental health. Following the extremely stressful experience of the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine caused a humanitarian influx of refugees in need of social and healthcare. We aimed to explore: (1) how working with refugees has affected the mental well-being of health care workers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, and (2) the nature of health care workers' emotional strain related to the refugee situation and the war in Ukraine.Methods: We used a combination of quantitative regression analyses and qualitative content analysis to assess data collected by an online questionnaire in 2022. The study included 1121 health care workers from the Czech arm of the inte

SUBMITTER: Janouskova M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11795749 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature