在医疗保健工作人员中拥有丰富的工作经验和长期的COVID
N Torrance1, E MacIver1, N N Adams1
1School of Nursing, Midwifery & Paramedic Practice, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen AB10 7QE, UK.
Occupational medicine (Oxford, England)
|December 10, 2023
概括
长期COVID严重影响医疗保健工作者,造成限制并影响工作模式. 灵活的工作场所支持和政策对于保留管理这些长期症状的员工至关重要.
科学领域:
- 职业健康 职业健康 职业健康
- 传染病流行病学 传染病流行病学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- 医疗保健工作者 (HCW) 面临2019年新冠肺炎疾病 (COVID-19) 的职业风险增加.
- 在HCW中长期COVID (LC) 发病率较高对医疗保健服务提供构成了挑战.
- 该研究涉及LC对医疗保健工作人员的重大影响.
研究的目的:
- 调查长期COVID对英国国家卫生服务 (NHS) 医疗保健工作者的影响.
- 评估对健康,福祉,工作模式和职业支持的影响.
- 了解长期COVID患者的HCW生活经验.
主要方法:
- 一种混合方法的方法,结合了在线调查和定性访谈.
- 通过社交媒体和NHS道,招募报告长期COVID症状的参与者.
- 使用NVivo软件,对50个HCW在各种角色中的数据进行主题分析.
主要成果:
- 471家医疗保健工作者完成了调查,其中90%报告由于多次长期COVID症状而受到活动限制.
- 三分之二的人因病休假,18%的人没有工作,33%的人的工作职责发生了变化.
- 大多数HCW在管理动态症状的同时工作,采用休息和节奏等策略,工作通常是优先考虑的.
结论:
- 长期COVID严重影响HCW,需要量身定制的支持.
- 慢性衰竭症状的动态和可变性需要适应的工作场所政策.
- 有效的支持,包括职业医学和灵活的调整,有助于症状管理和员工保留.
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