ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022
A Scoping Review of Moral Stressors, Moral Distress and Moral Injury in Healthcare Workers during COVID-19.
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- Healthcare Professionals' Subjective Well-Being: A Systematic Review and Methodological Appraisal of Conceptual Models, Measurement Instruments, and Associated Factors.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Pooled it
- The Association of Moral Injury and Healthcare Clinicians' Wellbeing: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- Moral injury and mental health among health-care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: meta-analysis.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2023Pooled it
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- Moral distress and moral injury in healthcare: A review and instrument analysis.Journal of health psychology · 2026Review
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- Trends and Thematic Clusters in Moral Injury Research: A Bibliometric Analysis.Journal of religion and health · 2026Article
- Global Research Across Countries on Moral Distress and Moral Injury Among Health Care Professionals (2006-2025): A Bibliometric Study of Ethical and Health-Related Research Trends.Journal of religion and health · 2026Article
- Moral Distress Among Nurses During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Survey.Nursing open · 2026Article
- Guilt, Not Shame, Mediates the Longitudinal Relationship Between Moral Distress and Suicidal Ideation Among Frontline Nurses During COVID-19.Journal of clinical psychology · 2026Article
- "We're all just trying to do right by our patients": a qualitative study of healthcare and research personnel's moral experiences of engaging with COVID-19 research during the first wave of the pandemic.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Toward a framework of moral challenges in military operations: implications for psychological resilience.Frontiers in public health · 2026Review
- 'When I had concerns about my own patients…I was told to keep quiet': experiences of moral injury among healthcare workers under Covid-19 vaccine mandates in Alberta, Canada.Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland) · 2026Article
- Empathy as a Conditional Resource: System-Level Moral Distress as an Indirect Pathway in the Associations of Empathy with Burnout and Turnover Intention.Journal of nursing management · 2026Article
- Instances of Moral Distress in Medical Education: Recognition and Approaches.Journal of advances in medical education & professionalism · 2026Article
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Abstract
Ethical dilemmas for healthcare workers (HCWs) during pandemics highlight the centrality of moral stressors and moral distress (MD) as well as potentially morally injurious events (PMIEs) and moral injury (MI). These constructs offer a novel approach to understanding workplace stressors in healthcare settings, especially in the demanding times of COVID-19, but they so far lack clear identification of causes and consequences. A scoping review of moral stressors, moral distress, PMIEs, and MI of healthcare workers during COVID-19 was conducted using the databases Web of Science Core Collection and PsycINFO based on articles published up to October 2021. Studies were selected based on the following inclusion criteria: (1) the measurement of either moral stress, MD, PMIEs, or MI among HCWs; (2) original research using qualitative or quantitative methods; and (3) the availability of the peer-reviewed original article in English or German. The initial search revealed
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