A qualitative investigation on the impact of mood and anxiety disorders in the workplace

O’Donnell, Lisa; Boraggina-Ballard, Lena; Allen, Junior Lloyd; Szechy, Kathryn A.; Miller-Matero, Lisa R; Loree, Amy M.

doi:10.1080/15332985.2021.2004293

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“…Veterinarians in our study described being short tempered, irritable, or withdrawing from their co-workers when experiencing high stress and/or poor mental health. These findings mirror those reported among human healthcare providers ( 68 ) and participants in non-healthcare settings ( 69 ) experiencing poor mental health. Veterinary staff may be engaging in a cycle where unhealthy veterinary relationships contribute to poor veterinarian mental health ( 70 ) and our findings suggest that veterinarians' poor mental health further strains veterinary relationships.…”

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A qualitative study exploring the perceived effects of veterinarians' mental health on provision of care

Campbell

Hagen²,

Gohar³

et al. 2023

Front. Vet. Sci.

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IntroductionVeterinary medicine is a rewarding, yet demanding profession with a myriad of occupational stressors that can impact the mental health of veterinarians. Stress, mental health outcomes, and associated risk factors amongst veterinarians have been well-researched. Much less research has investigated how high stress and/or poor mental health can impact veterinarians' provision of care.MethodsOne-on-one research interviews were conducted with 25 veterinarians at a Canadian veterinary conference in July 2016 and verbatim transcripts were produced from the audio recordings. The research team collaboratively analyzed the interviews using thematic analysis.ResultsFive themes described the perceived impacts of high stress and/or poor mental health: perceived negative impacts on interactions with (1) co-workers and (2) clients; (3) reduced concentration; (4) difficulty in decision making; and (5) reduced quality of care.DiscussionThese results highlight the perceived impacts of self-reported high stress and/or poor mental health on veterinary team dynamics, the potential to impact case outcomes, and possibly endanger patient safety. Interventions to help mitigate the impacts of high stress and poor mental health are discussed.

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A qualitative study exploring the perceived effects of veterinarians' mental health on provision of care

Campbell

Hagen²,

Gohar³

et al. 2023

Front. Vet. Sci.

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“…While samples of this nature are arguably more accessible, they are potentially susceptible to response bias (Bergen & Labonté, 2019;BPS, 2018a;McBride, 2019) and may be limited in providing a wider representation of the changing world in which individuals work and interact (Matsumoto & Juang, 2016). While the areas of SAD and feedback have been independently considered using qualitative methods (Brown & Harris, 2018;Himle et al, 2020;O'Donnell et al, 2021) the dominance of quantitative frameworks obfuscates the totality of the experience of individuals with SAD and how they experience feedback within a real-life context thus creating a gap in qualitative literature. Only one qualitative study could be identified, and the purpose of this mixed-methods pilot was to examine the relationship between anxiety and feedback.…”

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Can I Offer You Something? Examining How People With Social Anxiety Disorder Experience Feedback in the Workplace

Westwood

2024

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In relation to human behaviour feedback is described as a learning mechanism intended to enhanceperformance and support development. (Hattie & Timperley, 2007; Sanford & O’Loughlin, 2019).However, within organisations there are proposed limitations to the impact of feedback prompted byvarious factors including the diversity of the feedback metaphor and the mental health of thosereceiving feedback, particularly individuals experiencing social anxiety disorder (SAD; Bregman &Jacobson, 202; Voegler et al., 2019). SAD is the most prevalent anxiety disorder (Willacy, 2021) andwhile existing research has explored the relationship between SAD and various features of feedback(Beard and Amir 2008; Houle-Johnson et al., 2019), no qualitative study could be identified thatconsiders this relationship. This research is a phenomenological exploration of the relationshipbetween SAD and feedback, examining how individuals with social anxiety experience feedback inthe workplace. Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) was used to analyse the narratives ofsix participants captured via semi-structured interviews. Four superordinate themes emerged from theIPA: Dissociation and the Somatic Experience; Self-Editing vs Self-Disclosure; Interaction andConnection; The Power of What If. The findings of this study offer a possible contrast to the currentview of maladaptive behaviours and compliments current research on anxiety and dealing withambiguity. More practically it provides insights into the totality of the feedback experience forindividuals with SAD, how the feedback experience may be improved and highlights the continuedimportance of returning the receiver of feedback to the centre of the feedback dynamic.

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A qualitative investigation on the impact of mood and anxiety disorders in the workplace

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A qualitative study exploring the perceived effects of veterinarians' mental health on provision of care

A qualitative study exploring the perceived effects of veterinarians' mental health on provision of care

Can I Offer You Something? Examining How People With Social Anxiety Disorder Experience Feedback in the Workplace

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