Psychological distress in health care workers during the beginning, the middle, and the last part of the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic placed significant psychological strain on healthcare workers. Our study tracked health care workers in the Czech Republic throughout the pandemic to examine the impact of stressors on psychological distress over time and explore gender differences in these associations. We studied health care workers from the Czech arm of the international COVID-19 HEROES Study who took part in all three waves of data collection in 2020, 2021 and 2022 (n = 264). We employed a path model to examine the relationships among six stressors (low trust in workplace, assignment of new tasks, prioritization of patients, experience of death due to COVID-19, experience of discrimination or violence, contact with COVID-19 patients), psychological distress (measured by General Health Questionnair

SUBMITTER: Kearns PB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11982212 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature