ArticleEuropean journal of psychotraumatology2022
'It hurts your heart': frontline healthcare worker experiences of moral injury during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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46 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Prevalence of occupational moral injury and post-traumatic embitterment disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ open · 2024Pooled it
- Moral injury and mental health among health-care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: meta-analysis.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2023Pooled it
- Exploring healthcare workers' experiences of a simple intervention to reduce their intrusive memories of psychological trauma: an interpretative phenomenological analysis.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2024Trial
- "Part of a cog, of a system; a system that's broken": social workers' experiences of moral injury in England.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2026Article
- NHS healthcare worker experiences of moral injury: a follow-up qualitative study in England using reflexive thematic analysis.BMJ open · 2026Article
- Associations of Health Care System Deficiency-Related Patient Deterioration With Burnout, Depressive Symptoms, and Sleep Problems Among Emergency Medical Service Providers: Cross-Sectional Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2026Article
- 'They're waiting for us to break before they listen': healthcare workers' perspectives on how to mitigate moral distress in British Columbia, Canada.Primary health care research & development · 2026Article
- Trends and Thematic Clusters in Moral Injury Research: A Bibliometric Analysis.Journal of religion and health · 2026Article
- A Journey of Necessity: Moral Injury in Light of the Divine Comedy.Journal of religion and health · 2026Article
- Understanding ethical encounters in a hospital setting: a qualitative study.BMC medical ethics · 2026Article
- Support for the wellbeing of frontline healthcare workers should be incorporated in health emergency preparedness planning.Communications medicine · 2026Review
- Moral injury in healthcare workers: causes & interventions.British medical bulletin · 2026Review
- Mental health of healthcare workers in England during the first three years of the COVID-19 pandemic: The NHS CHECK study cohort.PloS one · 2026Article
- Complicity in Moral Injury: A Study of Moral Phenomena in Healthcare Work Settings.Journal of healthcare leadership · 2026Article
- Moralised reputational governance in transnational higher education: relational aggression in Chinese female co-national peer networks.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The impact of trauma and how to intervene: a narrative review of psychotraumatology over the past 15 years.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- Moral injury prevention and intervention.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Review
- "If we survive this, we'll make it through anything" - Exploration of the COVID-19 pandemic from the perspective of nursing home staff in Hesse, Germany.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Experiences of Moral Distress in Canadian Intensive Care Unit Professionals During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Exploratory Multiple Case Study in Ontario and Alberta, Canada.Journal of intensive care medicine · 2025Article
- Moral Injury Among Medical Personnel and First Responders Across Different Healthcare and Emergency Response Settings: A Narrative Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Review
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Siobhan HegartyDepartment of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4804-8797
Danielle LambDepartment of Applied Health Research, University College London, London, UK.
Sharon A M StevelinkDepartment of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
Rupa BhundiaDepartment of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
Rosalind RaineDepartment of Applied Health Research, University College London, London, UK.
Mary Jane DohertySouth London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
Hannah R ScottDepartment of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
Anne Marie RaffertyFlorence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care, King's College London, London, UK.
Victoria WilliamsonDepartment of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
Sarah DorringtonDepartment of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
Matthew HotopfDepartment of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
Reza RazaviKing's Wellcome Trust EPSRC Centre For Medical Engineering, London, UK.
Neil GreenbergDepartment of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
Simon WesselyDepartment of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
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Medical Research Council MR/V034405/1Wellcome Trust
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COVID-19Stress Disorders, Post-TraumaticHealth PersonnelHumansMoralsPandemicsCOVID-19healthcare workersmoral distressMoral injurynational health serviceNHSPMIEspotentially morally injurious eventsqualitative
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