A qualitative descriptive study of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on staff in a Canadian intensive care unit.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We sought to explore the lived experiences of a professionally diverse sample of healthcare workers (HCWs) in a single intensive care unit (ICU) serving a large and generalizable Canadian population. We aimed to understand how working during the COVID-19 pandemic affected their professional and personal lives, including their perceptions of institutional support, to inform interventions to ameliorate impacts of the COVID-19 and future pandemics.

Methods

In this qualitative descriptive study, 23 ICU HCWs, identified using convenience purposive sampling, took part in individual semistructured interviews between July and November 2020, shortly after the first wave of the pandemic in Ontario. We used inductive thematic analysis to identify major themes.

Results

We

SUBMITTER: Parsons Leigh J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9831684 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature