The Role of Harassment in the Mental Well-being of Local Public Health Professionals and Its Relationship With an Intent to Leave Their Organization During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, news and nationwide survey efforts have reported harassment and bullying among local health officials, departments, and personnel, concurrent to a shortage of public health staff in the United States. We examined a nationally representative sample of local p...

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Autores principales: McCall, Timothy C., Alford, Aaron A., Cunningham, Margaret C., Hall, Kellie, Royster, Jordan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. 2023
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Workforce Characteristics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10573101/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36223508
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PHH.0000000000001655
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author McCall, Timothy C.
Alford, Aaron A.
Cunningham, Margaret C.
Hall, Kellie
Royster, Jordan
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description Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, news and nationwide survey efforts have reported harassment and bullying among local health officials, departments, and personnel, concurrent to a shortage of public health staff in the United States. We examined a nationally representative sample of local public health professionals (LPHPs) from the 2021 Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (PH WINS) data set to explore reported experiences with harassment, threats, and bullying; self-rated mental and emotional well-being; and intent to leave an organization. Results indicated that experience of harassment was negatively associated with ratings of mental and emotional health and positively associated with an intent to leave an organization. We discuss implications and recommendations to mitigate these risks for the nation's local public health workforce.
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spelling pubmed-105731012023-10-14 The Role of Harassment in the Mental Well-being of Local Public Health Professionals and Its Relationship With an Intent to Leave Their Organization During the COVID-19 Pandemic McCall, Timothy C. Alford, Aaron A. Cunningham, Margaret C. Hall, Kellie Royster, Jordan J Public Health Manag Pract Workforce Characteristics Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, news and nationwide survey efforts have reported harassment and bullying among local health officials, departments, and personnel, concurrent to a shortage of public health staff in the United States. We examined a nationally representative sample of local public health professionals (LPHPs) from the 2021 Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (PH WINS) data set to explore reported experiences with harassment, threats, and bullying; self-rated mental and emotional well-being; and intent to leave an organization. Results indicated that experience of harassment was negatively associated with ratings of mental and emotional health and positively associated with an intent to leave an organization. We discuss implications and recommendations to mitigate these risks for the nation's local public health workforce. Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. 2023-01 2022-10-12 /pmc/articles/PMC10573101/ /pubmed/36223508 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PHH.0000000000001655 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (CCBY-NC-ND), where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal.
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The Role of Harassment in the Mental Well-being of Local Public Health Professionals and Its Relationship With an Intent to Leave Their Organization During the COVID-19 Pandemic
title The Role of Harassment in the Mental Well-being of Local Public Health Professionals and Its Relationship With an Intent to Leave Their Organization During the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_full The Role of Harassment in the Mental Well-being of Local Public Health Professionals and Its Relationship With an Intent to Leave Their Organization During the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_fullStr The Role of Harassment in the Mental Well-being of Local Public Health Professionals and Its Relationship With an Intent to Leave Their Organization During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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title_short The Role of Harassment in the Mental Well-being of Local Public Health Professionals and Its Relationship With an Intent to Leave Their Organization During the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_sort role of harassment in the mental well-being of local public health professionals and its relationship with an intent to leave their organization during the covid-19 pandemic
topic Workforce Characteristics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10573101/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36223508
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PHH.0000000000001655
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