The experiences of cooperation among healthcare workers who participated in COVID-19 aid mission in China: A qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Aims and objectives

To assist future offsite planning for pandemics, we documented lived experiences of cooperation among healthcare workers (HCWs) during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic poses a global health crisis. Most recent studies on the COVID-19 focus on frontline HCWs' physio-psychological experiences, with few studies examining their experiences of cooperation.

Design

A descriptive phenomenological design reported based on COREQ checklist.

Methods

25 HCWs (17 nurses and eight physicians) were interviewed, selected through convenience and purposive sampling, who participated in a medical aid mission in China during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data were collected via semi-structured online video interviews, and th

SUBMITTER: Wang A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8446990 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature