Hospital Physicians' Perspectives on Occupational Stress During COVID-19: a Qualitative Analysis from Two US Cities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

US physicians are at risk for high rates of occupational stress and burnout, which the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified. As approaches targeting physicians' individual resilience have fallen short, researchers are increasingly calling for studies that investigate organizational drivers of stress and burnout.

Objective

To understand the multi-dimensional systems factors shaping hospital physicians' occupational stress during the pandemic.

Design

Qualitative, semi-structured interviews conducted in February-October 2021.

Setting

Hospitals in New York City and New Orleans.

Participants

A purposive snowball sample of attending physicians and fellows in hospital medicine, emergency medicine, pulmonary critical care, and palliative care who spent a

SUBMITTER: Buchbinder M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9633020 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature