Australian and Danish nurses’ and midwives’ wellbeing during COVID-19: A comparison study

Is This All COVID-19′s Fault? A Study on Trainees in One of the Most Affected Italian Cities

“…For example, psychological distress appears to be quite significant to 78% of Japanese health workers [ 1 ]. In Australia and Denmark, serious depression was experienced by 13.5% of the respondents, anxiety was present in 12.9% and stress in 13.4% [ 2 ]. In another Australian study, psychological distress (anxiety, depression and stress) is found in a quarter of the respondents [ 3 ].…”

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Australian community health service staff’s occupational and personal lives: a longitudinal study

“…Nevertheless, the community health service staff in this study were more likely to frequently endorse that changes in the ways they delivered services to their clients and working from home were some of the greatest work impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, whereas hospital staff were more concerned that their job put them at risk of COVID-19 infection (Holton et al 2021a;Wynter et al 2022). These differences probably reflect the nature of the work that each group performs, as well as the environment in which it is conducted given many community health service staff provided services via telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic (Victorian Healthcare Association 2021), whereas hospital clinical staff were providing care for and had direct and sustained contact with COVID-19 inpatients, including those in ICU (Holton et al 2021c).…”

“…The surveys were available in Qualtrics (an online survey platform) and took approximately 10-15 min to complete. The survey questions were based on those from a similar study with hospital clinical staff and was conducted by members of the research team (Wynter et al 2022;Holton et al 2021aHolton et al , 2021bHolton et al , 2021c. The surveys included mostly fixed-response questions and assessed respondents' sociodemographic and employment characteristics; concerns about the impact of COVID-19 on personal and family health (six items using a five-point Likert scale ranging from 'not concerned' to 'extremely concerned'); perspectives on the use and effects of COVID-19 precautionary measures (nine items rated using a three-point Likert scale ranging from 'does not affect my ability to do my job' to 'affects my ability to do my job a lot'); work impacts of COVID-19 (15 items rated on a five-point Likert scale ranging from 'strongly disagree' to strongly agree'); personal impacts of COVID-19 (11 items rated using a five-point Likert scale ranging from 'strongly disagree' to strongly agree'); and perceptions of their organisation's response to the COVID-19 pandemic (seven items rated on a five-point Likert scale ranging from 'very poor' to 'excellent').…”

We're on mute! Exclusion of nurses' voices in national decisions and responses to COVID‐19: An international perspective

“…Nevertheless, our research demonstrates the universal and considerable psychosocial impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on nurses internationally. About 20%–30% of the nurses we surveyed during the first wave of the pandemic reported mild to extremely severe psychological distress (Couper et al, 2021 ; Holton et al, 2020 ; Holton, Wynter, Rothmann, et al, 2021 ). Nurses also appear to have experienced greater psychological distress compared with other healthcare workers.…”