作为患者的医疗保健提供者:COVID-19体验经验
Abbas Al Mutair1,2,3,4,5, Alexander Woodman6, Amal I Al Hassawi7
1Research Center, Almoosa Specialist Hospital, Al-ahsa, Saudi Arabia.
PloS one
|August 24, 2023
概括
从COVID-19中恢复过来的医疗保健提供者经历了相当大的心理痛苦和耻辱感,类似于普通公众. 他们的经验强调了在卫生危机期间需要更好的支持系统和可靠的信息来源.
科学领域:
- 医学社会学 医学社会学
- 流行病学 流行病学
- 质量健康研究 质量健康研究
背景情况:
- 流行病对普通人口的心理影响已经得到了充分的证据.
- 较少的研究探讨了COVID-19感染后医疗保健提供者 (HCP) 的生活经历.
- 了解医务人员对疾病的主观含义对于有针对性的支持至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 质量地探索和描述在沙特阿拉伯作为患者幸存下来的COVID-19的医疗保健工作者的生活经历.
- 确定医疗保健工作者在康复期间所面临的独特挑战和心理结果.
- 从提供者的角度提供对疾病经验的细微视角.
主要方法:
- 一项使用非结构化,深入的个人访谈进行的定性研究.
- 参与者包括来自沙特阿拉伯公共医院的10名医疗保健提供者.
- 用于数据分析的现象学方法,确定关键主题.
主要成果:
- 五个主要主题出现了:身体/心理症状,自我愈合/家庭动态,对并发症的恐惧,疾病耻辱以及情感支持/辞职.
- 医疗保健工作者面临着类似的,有时甚至更严重的压力因素和来自家庭,同事和雇主的耻辱.
- 作为一名HCP并没有减少恐惧,孤立或耻辱化的后果.
结论:
- 医疗保健人员在患者忍受严重的心理挑战和社会耻辱时,在COVID-19中进行导航.
- 这些发现强调了对可靠的健康信息传播和健康专业人员强有力的支持网络的迫切需要.
- 这项研究为患者在患病期间的需求提供了新的视角,强调了不论职业的普遍脆弱性.
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