ArticleActa bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis2021
One-week longitudinal daily description of moral distress, coping, and general health in healthcare workers during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy: A quantitative diary study.
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- Moral Distress Scores of Nurses Working in Intensive Care Units for Adults Using Corley's Scale: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Coping profiles and their association with vicarious post-traumatic growth among nurses during the three waves of the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of clinical nursing · 2025Article
- Moral Distress of Intensive Care Nurses: A Phenomenological Qualitative Study Two Years after the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Frontline Involvement in Population COVID-19 Vaccinations: Lived Experience of Nursing Students.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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- Moral and exhausting distress working in the frontline of COVID-19: a Swedish survey during the first wave in four healthcare settings.BMJ open · 2022Article
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Abstract
Background and aim of the work .The fluctuation from day to day within a working week of moral distress, coping, and general health of frontline healthcare workers (HCWs) in facing the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic has been poorly studied. This study described the weekly fluctuation from day to day of moral distress, coping, and general health in frontline HCWs who worked during the first epidemic wave (May-June 2020) of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.
methodsThis study has an intensive longitudinal design, and a convenience sampling procedure was employed to enroll physicians, nurses, allied health professions, and healthcare assistants. Data collection was performed using diary encompassed four sections: a socio-demographic form (required only at the baseline data collection) and three scales to assess moral distress, coping, and general health.
resultsResults confirmed poor perceived health and mild moral distress in frontline HCWs, especially in HCWs with offspring, during the initial phases of the COVID-19 pandemic and the stability of their daily perception over a working week regarding moral distress, general health, and avoidant coping strategy, while approach coping strategy reported a slight fluctuation over time.
conclusionsAccordingly, on the one hand, these results confirm that outcomes regarding mental health and moral distress are pretty stable and provide insights, on the other hand, regarding the possible organizational interventions to support approach coping strategy as it seems more susceptible to variation over time.
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