ArticleJournal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open2021
A qualitative investigation of the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on emergency physicians' emotional experiences and coping strategies.
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- Resilience among health care workers while working during a pandemic: A systematic review and meta synthesis of qualitative studies.Clinical psychology review · 2022Pooled it
- Health and Social Care Professionals' Experience of Psychological Safety Within Their Occupational Setting: A Thematic Synthesis Review.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2025Review
- Prudent Physician Anger in Patient-Physician Interactions.Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy · 2025Article
- Experiences of Spanish out-of-hospital emergency workers with high levels of depression during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2024Article
- COVID-19 related negative emotions and emotional suppression are associated with greater risk perceptions among emergency nurses: A cross-sectional study.International journal of nursing studies advances · 2023Article
- Doctors' Professional and Personal Reflections: A Qualitative Exploration of Physicians' Views and Coping during the COVID-19 Pandemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- A qualitative investigation of the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on emergency physicians' emotional experiences and coping strategies.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2021Article
- Trying to Control the Situation: A Theory of Iranian Midwives' Experiences of the Coping Process with their Professional Roles Following COVID-19.Iranian journal of nursing and midwifery researchArticle
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objectiveThroughout the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, emergency physicians in the United States have faced unprecedented challenges, risks, and uncertainty while caring for patients in an already vulnerable healthcare system. As such, the pandemic has exacerbated high levels of negative emotions and burnout among emergency physicians, but little systematic qualitative work has documented these phenomena. The purpose of this qualitative investigation was to study emergency physicians' emotional experiences in response to COVID-19 and the coping strategies that they employed to navigate the pandemic.
methodsFrom September 2020 to February 2021, we conducted semistructured interviews with 26 emergency physicians recruited from 2 early COVID-19 epicenters: New York City and the Metro Boston region. Interviews, coding, and analyses were conducted using a grounded theory approach.
resultsEmergency physicians reported heightened anxiety, empathy, sadness, frustration, and anger during the pandemic. Physicians frequently attributed feelings of anxiety to medical uncertainty around the COVID-19 virus, personal risk of contracting the virus and transmitting it to family members, the emergency environment, and resource availability. Emergency physicians also discussed the emotional effects of policies prohibiting patients' family members from entering the emergency department (ED), both on themselves and patients. Sources of physician anger and frustration included changing policies and rules, hospital leadership and administration, and pay cuts. Some physicians described an evolving, ongoing coping process in response to the pandemic, and most identified collective discussion and processing within the emergency medicine community as an effective coping strategy.
conclusionsOur findings underscore the need to investigate the effects of physicians' pandemic-related emotional stress and burnout on patient care. Evidence-based interventions to support emergency physicians in coping with pandemic-related trauma are needed.
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