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The Psychological Experience of Frontline Perioperative Health Care Staff in Responding to COVID-19: Qualitative Study
BACKGROUND: The rapid spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has presented immeasurable challenges to health care workers who remain at the frontline of the pandemic. A rapidly evolving body of literature has quantitatively demonstrated significant psychological impacts of the pandemic on health...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8483271/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34346887 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/27166 |
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author | Withiel, Toni Barson, Elizabeth Ng, Irene Segal, Reny Williams, Daryl Lindsay Goulding Krieser, Roni Benjamin Lee, Keat Mezzavia, Paul Mario Sindoni, Teresa Chen, Yinwei Fisher, Caroline Anne |
author_facet | Withiel, Toni Barson, Elizabeth Ng, Irene Segal, Reny Williams, Daryl Lindsay Goulding Krieser, Roni Benjamin Lee, Keat Mezzavia, Paul Mario Sindoni, Teresa Chen, Yinwei Fisher, Caroline Anne |
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description | BACKGROUND: The rapid spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has presented immeasurable challenges to health care workers who remain at the frontline of the pandemic. A rapidly evolving body of literature has quantitatively demonstrated significant psychological impacts of the pandemic on health care workers. However, little is known about the lived experience of the pandemic for frontline medical staff. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to explore the qualitative experience of perioperative staff from a large trauma hospital in Melbourne, Australia. METHODS: Inductive thematic analysis using a critical realist approach was used to analyze data from 9 semistructured interviews. RESULTS: Four key themes were identified. Hospital preparedness related to the perceived readiness of the hospital to respond to the pandemic and encompassed key subthemes around communication of policy changes, team leadership, and resource availability. Perceptions of readiness contributed to the perceived psychological impacts of the pandemic, which were highly varied and ranged from anger to anxiety. A number of coping strategies were identified in response to psychological impacts which incorporated both internal and external coping mechanisms. Finally, adaptation with time reflected change and growth over time, and encompassed all other themes. CONCLUSIONS: While frontline staff and hospitals have rapidly marshalled a response to managing the virus, relatively less consideration was seen regarding staff mental health in our study. Findings highlight the vulnerability of health care workers in response to the pandemic and reinforce the need for a coordinated approach to managing mental health. |
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spelling | pubmed-84832712021-11-24 The Psychological Experience of Frontline Perioperative Health Care Staff in Responding to COVID-19: Qualitative Study Withiel, Toni Barson, Elizabeth Ng, Irene Segal, Reny Williams, Daryl Lindsay Goulding Krieser, Roni Benjamin Lee, Keat Mezzavia, Paul Mario Sindoni, Teresa Chen, Yinwei Fisher, Caroline Anne JMIR Perioper Med Original Paper BACKGROUND: The rapid spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has presented immeasurable challenges to health care workers who remain at the frontline of the pandemic. A rapidly evolving body of literature has quantitatively demonstrated significant psychological impacts of the pandemic on health care workers. However, little is known about the lived experience of the pandemic for frontline medical staff. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to explore the qualitative experience of perioperative staff from a large trauma hospital in Melbourne, Australia. METHODS: Inductive thematic analysis using a critical realist approach was used to analyze data from 9 semistructured interviews. RESULTS: Four key themes were identified. Hospital preparedness related to the perceived readiness of the hospital to respond to the pandemic and encompassed key subthemes around communication of policy changes, team leadership, and resource availability. Perceptions of readiness contributed to the perceived psychological impacts of the pandemic, which were highly varied and ranged from anger to anxiety. A number of coping strategies were identified in response to psychological impacts which incorporated both internal and external coping mechanisms. Finally, adaptation with time reflected change and growth over time, and encompassed all other themes. CONCLUSIONS: While frontline staff and hospitals have rapidly marshalled a response to managing the virus, relatively less consideration was seen regarding staff mental health in our study. Findings highlight the vulnerability of health care workers in response to the pandemic and reinforce the need for a coordinated approach to managing mental health. JMIR Publications 2021-09-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8483271/ /pubmed/34346887 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/27166 Text en ©Toni Withiel, Elizabeth Barson, Irene Ng, Reny Segal, Daryl Lindsay Goulding Williams, Roni Benjamin Krieser, Keat Lee, Paul Mario Mezzavia, Teresa Sindoni, Yinwei Chen, Caroline Anne Fisher. Originally published in JMIR Perioperative Medicine (http://periop.jmir.org), 29.09.2021. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Perioperative Medicine, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://periop.jmir.org, as well as this copyright and license information must be included. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Withiel, Toni Barson, Elizabeth Ng, Irene Segal, Reny Williams, Daryl Lindsay Goulding Krieser, Roni Benjamin Lee, Keat Mezzavia, Paul Mario Sindoni, Teresa Chen, Yinwei Fisher, Caroline Anne The Psychological Experience of Frontline Perioperative Health Care Staff in Responding to COVID-19: Qualitative Study |
title | The Psychological Experience of Frontline Perioperative Health Care Staff in Responding to COVID-19: Qualitative Study |
title_full | The Psychological Experience of Frontline Perioperative Health Care Staff in Responding to COVID-19: Qualitative Study |
title_fullStr | The Psychological Experience of Frontline Perioperative Health Care Staff in Responding to COVID-19: Qualitative Study |
title_full_unstemmed | The Psychological Experience of Frontline Perioperative Health Care Staff in Responding to COVID-19: Qualitative Study |
title_short | The Psychological Experience of Frontline Perioperative Health Care Staff in Responding to COVID-19: Qualitative Study |
title_sort | psychological experience of frontline perioperative health care staff in responding to covid-19: qualitative study |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8483271/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34346887 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/27166 |
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