Psychosocial well-being of healthcare workers during COVID-19

During the present COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers are confronted with multiple stressors. At the beginning of the pandemic, these stressors were mainly related to health and safety issues. In the course of the pandemic, societal stressors became more salient. These include lacking credibility of important stakeholders (leadership, organization and policy) as well as lacking appreciation from society and policy. Both stressors referring to safety related issues as well as stressors referring to trust or morally related issues, have negative impact on psychosocial well-being in terms of distress, anxiety, burnout, depression and moral injury. To mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on healthcare workers and to enhance the resilience and psychosocial well-being of healthcare workers, psychosocial support is important to be delivered on different levels.