The Silent Burden: Investigating Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Social Isolation Among Healthcare Workers During COVID-19
Mariusz Goniewicz, Anna Włoszczak-Szubzda, Ahmed M. Al-Wathinani, Krzysztof Goniewicz · 2024
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Mariusz Goniewicz and co-authors survey trauma and social shunning among Polish health workers in this 2024 study. During COVID-19, some nurses and paramedics were avoided or blamed by neighbors who feared infection. The team surveyed 852 health workers in four provinces between 2021 and 2022, using a standard checklist for post-traumatic stress symptoms plus questions on being shunned.
About fourteen percent said they had been shunned, and five percent had seen it happen to colleagues. Workers who lived or witnessed shunning reported clearly worse stress symptoms. Worry about their own health and about older people tracked with worse symptoms, while worry about household members did not. The authors call for resilience training and anti-stigma work as part of support for health staff in crises.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mariusz Goniewicz, Anna Włoszczak-Szubzda, Ahmed M. Al-Wathinani, Krzysztof Goniewicz |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 41 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |