Early Care and Education Workers' Experience and Stress during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT: Early care and education (ECE) workers experience many job-related stressors. During the COVID-19 pandemic, ECE programs either closed or remained open while workers faced additional demands. We deployed a survey of the center-based ECE workforce in Washington State (United States) one year into the COVID-19 pandemic to assess impacts and workers' perceived stress levels. We describe the prevalence of reported impacts, including workplace closures; job changes; COVID-19 transmission; risk factors for severe COVID-19; the use of social distancing practices; satisfaction with workplace responses; perceptions of worker roles, respect, and influence; and food and financial insecurity. Themes from open-ended responses illustrate how workers' jobs changed and the stressors that workers experienc

SUBMITTER: Quinn EL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8910108 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature