Emotional Exhaustion Among US Health Care Workers Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2019-2021.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Extraordinary strain from COVID-19 has negatively impacted health care worker (HCW) well-being.

Objective

To determine whether HCW emotional exhaustion has increased during the pandemic, for which roles, and at what point.

Design, setting, and participants

This survey study was conducted in 3 waves, with an electronic survey administered in September 2019, September 2020, and September 2021 through January 2022. Participants included hospital-based HCWs in clinical and nonclinical (eg, administrative support) roles at 76 community hospitals within 2 large health care systems in the US.

Exposures

Safety, Communication, Organizational Reliability, Physician, and Employee Burnout and Engagement (SCORE) survey domains of emotional exhaustion and emotiona

SUBMITTER: Sexton JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9494188 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature