Health care worker experiences with a brief peer support and well-being intervention during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Health care workers (HCW) faced chronic stress during the COVID-19 pandemic and were at high risk of illness, death and burnout.

Objective

To understand the experiences of and assess the acceptability and usability of the "Stress First Aid" (SFA) intervention for HCWs.

Design

We used a mixed methods approach to conduct: (1) a quantitative post-intervention survey of experiences with the SFA intervention within a cluster randomized controlled trial (cRCT); and (2) a qualitative descriptive analysis. The intervention was rolled out over three waves from March 2021 - October 2022 simultaneously with the sites' COVID-19 response.

Setting

Our team engaged and recruited eight pairs of hospitals and six pairs of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), b

SUBMITTER: Timmins G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12482828 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature