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An unheard voice: infection prevention professionals reflect on their experiences during the covid-19 pandemic
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic required a shift away from the evidence-based practices known to infection prevention professionals’ (IPP). Relaying these guidelines to beleaguered front line staff contributed to the experience of moral distress and burnout among IPPs. METHODS: A mixed methods des...
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Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc.
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9719930/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36473616 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2022.11.021 |
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author | Pintar, Paula A. McAndrew, Natalie S. |
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description | BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic required a shift away from the evidence-based practices known to infection prevention professionals’ (IPP). Relaying these guidelines to beleaguered front line staff contributed to the experience of moral distress and burnout among IPPs. METHODS: A mixed methods design was used to explore the experiences of IPPs during the COVID-19 pandemic. An electronic survey was sent to a convenience sample from the Wisconsin APIC membership. A subset of this sample completed additional semi-structured interviews. RESULTS: A total of 61 IPPs responded to the survey, 18 agreed to interviews with 11 completions. Most respondents identified as female (n=58, 95.0%) and White (n=55, 90.1%). More than half of the respondents (n=39, 63.9 %) reported they experienced moral distress (MD). Themes from one-on-one interviews included: Feeling depleted, challenges to IPP role, validation of IPP expertise, value of peer support. CONCLUSIONS: We found that IPPs endured significant distress and exhaustion during the COVID-19 pandemic regardless of their practice setting. The long-term effects on the IPP profession must be examined. IPPs are susceptible to high levels of stress and anxiety similar to other frontline healthcare workers. IPPs deserve recognition for their service during the pandemic and should have access to resources that can support their well-being. |
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spelling | pubmed-97199302022-12-05 An unheard voice: infection prevention professionals reflect on their experiences during the covid-19 pandemic Pintar, Paula A. McAndrew, Natalie S. Am J Infect Control Major Article BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic required a shift away from the evidence-based practices known to infection prevention professionals’ (IPP). Relaying these guidelines to beleaguered front line staff contributed to the experience of moral distress and burnout among IPPs. METHODS: A mixed methods design was used to explore the experiences of IPPs during the COVID-19 pandemic. An electronic survey was sent to a convenience sample from the Wisconsin APIC membership. A subset of this sample completed additional semi-structured interviews. RESULTS: A total of 61 IPPs responded to the survey, 18 agreed to interviews with 11 completions. Most respondents identified as female (n=58, 95.0%) and White (n=55, 90.1%). More than half of the respondents (n=39, 63.9 %) reported they experienced moral distress (MD). Themes from one-on-one interviews included: Feeling depleted, challenges to IPP role, validation of IPP expertise, value of peer support. CONCLUSIONS: We found that IPPs endured significant distress and exhaustion during the COVID-19 pandemic regardless of their practice setting. The long-term effects on the IPP profession must be examined. IPPs are susceptible to high levels of stress and anxiety similar to other frontline healthcare workers. IPPs deserve recognition for their service during the pandemic and should have access to resources that can support their well-being. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022-12-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9719930/ /pubmed/36473616 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2022.11.021 Text en © 2022 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Major Article Pintar, Paula A. McAndrew, Natalie S. An unheard voice: infection prevention professionals reflect on their experiences during the covid-19 pandemic |
title | An unheard voice: infection prevention professionals reflect on their experiences during the covid-19 pandemic |
title_full | An unheard voice: infection prevention professionals reflect on their experiences during the covid-19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | An unheard voice: infection prevention professionals reflect on their experiences during the covid-19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | An unheard voice: infection prevention professionals reflect on their experiences during the covid-19 pandemic |
title_short | An unheard voice: infection prevention professionals reflect on their experiences during the covid-19 pandemic |
title_sort | unheard voice: infection prevention professionals reflect on their experiences during the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Major Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9719930/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36473616 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2022.11.021 |
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