Stressors on frontline healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a focus on moral injury and implications for the future.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The COVID-19 pandemic has placed a psychological strain on health care workers (HCWs). To provide effective support, it is important to explore the stressors that HCWs face that place them at risk of negative psychological outcomes. However, there is a limited number of systematic qualitative studies on the stressors that HCWs faced in the United States of America (USA) during the first wave of the pandemic. Therefore, we explored the stressors that frontline HCWs in the USA experienced during the initial phase of the pandemic.

Methods

We performed a qualitative study based on open-ended, semi-structured, one-on-one interviews conducted virtually among HCWs from June 1st to July 18th, 2020. We interviewed frontline HCWs (N = 45) including physicians, nurses, respir

SUBMITTER: Adeyemo OO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9048619 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature