Moral distress among clinicians working in US safety net practices during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore the causes and levels of moral distress experienced by clinicians caring for the low-income patients of safety net practices in the USA during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design

Cross-sectional survey in late 2020, employing quantitative and qualitative analyses.

Setting

Safety net practices in 20 US states.

Participants

2073 survey respondents (45.8% response rate) in primary care, dental and behavioural health disciplines working in safety net practices and participating in state and national education loan repayment programmes.

Measures

Ordinally scaled degree of moral distress experienced during the pandemic, and open-ended response descriptions of issues that caused most moral distress.

Results

Weighted to reflect all surveyed

SUBMITTER: Pathman DE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9421917 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature