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“I Don’t Want to Go to Work”: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Healthcare Worker Experiences from the Front- and Side-Lines of COVID-19

During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers (HCW) were categorized as “essential” and “non-essential”, creating a division where some were “locked-in” a system with little ability to prepare for or control the oncoming crisis. Others were “locked-out” regardless of whether their skills might be...

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Autores principales: Heavner, Smith F., Stuenkel, Mackenzie, Russ Sellers, Rebecca, McCallus, Rhiannon, Dean, Kendall D., Wilson, Chloe, Shuffler, Marissa, Britt, Thomas W., Stark Taylor, Shannon, Benedum, Molly, Munk, Niki, Mayo, Rachel, Cartmell, Kathleen Buford, Griffin, Sarah, Kennedy, Ann Blair
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Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10252235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37297557
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20115953
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author Heavner, Smith F.
Stuenkel, Mackenzie
Russ Sellers, Rebecca
McCallus, Rhiannon
Dean, Kendall D.
Wilson, Chloe
Shuffler, Marissa
Britt, Thomas W.
Stark Taylor, Shannon
Benedum, Molly
Munk, Niki
Mayo, Rachel
Cartmell, Kathleen Buford
Griffin, Sarah
Kennedy, Ann Blair
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Stuenkel, Mackenzie
Russ Sellers, Rebecca
McCallus, Rhiannon
Dean, Kendall D.
Wilson, Chloe
Shuffler, Marissa
Britt, Thomas W.
Stark Taylor, Shannon
Benedum, Molly
Munk, Niki
Mayo, Rachel
Cartmell, Kathleen Buford
Griffin, Sarah
Kennedy, Ann Blair
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description During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers (HCW) were categorized as “essential” and “non-essential”, creating a division where some were “locked-in” a system with little ability to prepare for or control the oncoming crisis. Others were “locked-out” regardless of whether their skills might be useful. The purpose of this study was to systematically gather data over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic from HCW through an interprofessional lens to examine experiences of locked-out HCW. This convergent parallel mixed-methods study captured perspectives representing nearly two dozen professions through a survey, administered via social media, and video blogs. Analysis included logistic regression models of differences in outcome measures by professional category and Rapid Identification of Themes from Audio recordings (RITA) of video blogs. We collected 1299 baseline responses from 15 April 2020 to 16 March 2021. Of those responses, 12.1% reported no signs of burnout, while 21.9% reported four or more signs. Qualitative analysis identified four themes: (1) professional identity, (2) intrinsic stressors, (3) extrinsic factors, and (4) coping strategies. There are some differences in the experiences of locked-in and locked-out HCW. This did not always lead to differing reports of moral distress and burnout, and both groups struggled to cope with the realities of the pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-102522352023-06-10 “I Don’t Want to Go to Work”: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Healthcare Worker Experiences from the Front- and Side-Lines of COVID-19 Heavner, Smith F. Stuenkel, Mackenzie Russ Sellers, Rebecca McCallus, Rhiannon Dean, Kendall D. Wilson, Chloe Shuffler, Marissa Britt, Thomas W. Stark Taylor, Shannon Benedum, Molly Munk, Niki Mayo, Rachel Cartmell, Kathleen Buford Griffin, Sarah Kennedy, Ann Blair Int J Environ Res Public Health Article During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers (HCW) were categorized as “essential” and “non-essential”, creating a division where some were “locked-in” a system with little ability to prepare for or control the oncoming crisis. Others were “locked-out” regardless of whether their skills might be useful. The purpose of this study was to systematically gather data over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic from HCW through an interprofessional lens to examine experiences of locked-out HCW. This convergent parallel mixed-methods study captured perspectives representing nearly two dozen professions through a survey, administered via social media, and video blogs. Analysis included logistic regression models of differences in outcome measures by professional category and Rapid Identification of Themes from Audio recordings (RITA) of video blogs. We collected 1299 baseline responses from 15 April 2020 to 16 March 2021. Of those responses, 12.1% reported no signs of burnout, while 21.9% reported four or more signs. Qualitative analysis identified four themes: (1) professional identity, (2) intrinsic stressors, (3) extrinsic factors, and (4) coping strategies. There are some differences in the experiences of locked-in and locked-out HCW. This did not always lead to differing reports of moral distress and burnout, and both groups struggled to cope with the realities of the pandemic. MDPI 2023-05-25 /pmc/articles/PMC10252235/ /pubmed/37297557 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20115953 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Stuenkel, Mackenzie
Russ Sellers, Rebecca
McCallus, Rhiannon
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Wilson, Chloe
Shuffler, Marissa
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Stark Taylor, Shannon
Benedum, Molly
Munk, Niki
Mayo, Rachel
Cartmell, Kathleen Buford
Griffin, Sarah
Kennedy, Ann Blair
“I Don’t Want to Go to Work”: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Healthcare Worker Experiences from the Front- and Side-Lines of COVID-19
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title_fullStr “I Don’t Want to Go to Work”: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Healthcare Worker Experiences from the Front- and Side-Lines of COVID-19
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title_short “I Don’t Want to Go to Work”: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Healthcare Worker Experiences from the Front- and Side-Lines of COVID-19
title_sort “i don’t want to go to work”: a mixed-methods analysis of healthcare worker experiences from the front- and side-lines of covid-19
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10252235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37297557
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20115953
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