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Wellbeing of CAMHS staff and changes in working practices during the COVID‐19 pandemic
INTRODUCTION: The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has necessitated significant changes in working practices across healthcare services. The current study aimed to assess the wellbeing of health professionals and quantify the adaptations to working practices in a Child and Adolescent Mental Health...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8250400/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33738882 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcap.12311 |
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description | INTRODUCTION: The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has necessitated significant changes in working practices across healthcare services. The current study aimed to assess the wellbeing of health professionals and quantify the adaptations to working practices in a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) during the pandemic. METHOD: The study was conducted in a UK CAMH team six weeks into lockdown measures. All clinicians were invited to complete a survey eliciting their experiences of working practices during the pandemic, degree of worry about the virus and mental wellbeing. RESULTS: Clinicians had significantly lower levels of mental wellbeing during the pandemic than population normative data, to the extent that some clinicians were classified as at heightened risk of depression. A significant shift to remote working, reduction in face‐to‐face appointments, and decrease in clinicians' perceived ability to undertake clinical tasks was observed. Themes emerging from clinicians' experiences of working during the pandemic include being supported within the team, providing a service, working adaptations, and working as a team. A further theme highlights the needs of clinicians to complete their clinical role effectively. CONCLUSION: CAMHS clinicians require additional support, training, and guidance during a pandemic to promote mental wellbeing and effectiveness in completing clinical tasks. |
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spelling | pubmed-82504002021-07-02 Wellbeing of CAMHS staff and changes in working practices during the COVID‐19 pandemic Bentham, Charlotte Driver, Katie Stark, Daniel J Child Adolesc Psychiatr Nurs Original Articles INTRODUCTION: The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has necessitated significant changes in working practices across healthcare services. The current study aimed to assess the wellbeing of health professionals and quantify the adaptations to working practices in a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) during the pandemic. METHOD: The study was conducted in a UK CAMH team six weeks into lockdown measures. All clinicians were invited to complete a survey eliciting their experiences of working practices during the pandemic, degree of worry about the virus and mental wellbeing. RESULTS: Clinicians had significantly lower levels of mental wellbeing during the pandemic than population normative data, to the extent that some clinicians were classified as at heightened risk of depression. A significant shift to remote working, reduction in face‐to‐face appointments, and decrease in clinicians' perceived ability to undertake clinical tasks was observed. Themes emerging from clinicians' experiences of working during the pandemic include being supported within the team, providing a service, working adaptations, and working as a team. A further theme highlights the needs of clinicians to complete their clinical role effectively. CONCLUSION: CAMHS clinicians require additional support, training, and guidance during a pandemic to promote mental wellbeing and effectiveness in completing clinical tasks. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-03-19 2021-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8250400/ /pubmed/33738882 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcap.12311 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing Published by Wiley Periodicals LLC https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Bentham, Charlotte Driver, Katie Stark, Daniel Wellbeing of CAMHS staff and changes in working practices during the COVID‐19 pandemic |
title | Wellbeing of CAMHS staff and changes in working practices during the COVID‐19 pandemic |
title_full | Wellbeing of CAMHS staff and changes in working practices during the COVID‐19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | Wellbeing of CAMHS staff and changes in working practices during the COVID‐19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Wellbeing of CAMHS staff and changes in working practices during the COVID‐19 pandemic |
title_short | Wellbeing of CAMHS staff and changes in working practices during the COVID‐19 pandemic |
title_sort | wellbeing of camhs staff and changes in working practices during the covid‐19 pandemic |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8250400/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33738882 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcap.12311 |
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