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Moral Distress Entangled: Patients and Providers in the COVID-19 Era.
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- Moral Resilience and Race, Ethnicity, and Culture Within Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the USA: a Scoping Review.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- How Nursing Home Nurses Who Care for Residents With Dementia Experience the Moral Distress? A Phenomenography Study.Nursing open · 2025Article
- The collective experience of moral distress: a qualitative analysis of perspectives of frontline health workers during COVID-19.Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM · 2025Article
- Decision-making and ethical dilemmas experienced by hospital physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Czech Republic.BMC medical ethics · 2024Article
- Healthcare Provider Experiences With Unvaccinated COVID-19 Patients: A Qualitative Study.Critical care explorations · 2024Article
- Description and Analysis of Research on Death and Dying during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Published in Nursing Journals Indexed in SCOPUS.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2024Article
- Nursing students' experience of moral distress in clinical settings: A phenomenological study.Nursing open · 2024Article
- Moral distress and moral courage among Iraqi nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study.Journal of medical ethics and history of medicine · 2023Article
- Study of the Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of the Measure of Moral Distress for Health Care Professionals (MMD-HP-SPA).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Legal Regulations and the Anticipation of Moral Distress of Prospective Nurses: A Comparison of Selected Undergraduate Nursing Education Programmes.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Moral distress is defined as the inability to act according to one's own core values. During the COVID-19 pandemic, moral distress in medical personnel has gained attention, related to the impact of pandemic-associated factors, such as the uncertainty of treatment options for the virus and the accelerated pace of deaths. Measures to provide aid and mitigate the long-term pandemic effect on providers are starting to be designed. Yet, little has been said about the moral distress experienced by patients and the relational and additive effect on provider moral distress. Pandemic-associated factors affecting moral distress in patients include the constraining effects of isolation on spiritual and religious traditions as well as the intentional separation of patients from their families. This paper will explore the idea that patients are suffering their own moral distress and further how this impacts the intensity of moral distress experienced by the providers-nurses and physicians. The paucity of research in this area with the implications on patient's distress, decision making, and distress experienced by providers compels further investigation and analysis.
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