Resilience of hospital staff facing COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons from Israel
IntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic has placed additional burden on already strained healthcare systems worldwide, intensifying the responsibility and burden of healthcare workers. Although most hospital staff continued working during this stressful and challenging unprecedented pandemic, differences...
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| author | Daniel Trotzky Daniel Trotzky Uri Aizik Uri Aizik Jonathan Mosery Jonathan Mosery Natali Carady Natali Carady Guy Tavori Aya Cohen Aya Cohen Gal Pachys Gal Pachys Miri Avraham Miri Avraham Osnat Levtzion-Korach Osnat Levtzion-Korach Orna Tal Orna Tal Orna Tal Orna Tal |
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| description | IntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic has placed additional burden on already strained healthcare systems worldwide, intensifying the responsibility and burden of healthcare workers. Although most hospital staff continued working during this stressful and challenging unprecedented pandemic, differences in the characteristics and attributes were noted between sectors and hospital departments. Israeli healthcare workers are trained and experienced in coping with national emergencies, but the pandemic has exposed variations in staff reactions. Understanding the intrinsic differences between sectors and departments is a key factor in staff and hospital preparedness for unexpected events, better resource utilization for timely interventions to mitigate risk and improve staff wellbeing.ObjectiveTo identify and compare the level of resilience, secondary traumatization and burnout among hospital workers, between different sectors and hospital departments, during the COVID-19 pandemic.MethodsCross-sectional research to assess the resiliency, secondary traumatization and burnout of healthcare workers at a large general public hospital in central Israel. The sample consisted of 655 participants across various hospital units exposed to COVID-19 patients.ResultsEmergency department physicians had higher rates of resilience and lower rates of burnout and secondary traumatization than staff in other hospital departments. In contrast, staff from internal medicine departments demonstrated the highest levels of burnout (4.29). Overall, physicians demonstrated higher levels of resilience (7.26) and lower levels of burnout compared to other workers.ConclusionIdentifying resilience characteristics across hospital staff, sectors and departments can guide hospital management in education, preparation and training of healthcare workers for future large-scale health emergencies such as pandemics, natural disasters, and war. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-465f506e4dd8469f82621b1ef56c85bf2023-03-31T08:10:04ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Public Health2296-25652023-03-011110.3389/fpubh.2023.10502611050261Resilience of hospital staff facing COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons from IsraelDaniel Trotzky0Daniel Trotzky1Uri Aizik2Uri Aizik3Jonathan Mosery4Jonathan Mosery5Natali Carady6Natali Carady7Guy Tavori8Aya Cohen9Aya Cohen10Gal Pachys11Gal Pachys12Miri Avraham13Miri Avraham14Osnat Levtzion-Korach15Osnat Levtzion-Korach16Orna Tal17Orna Tal18Orna Tal19Orna Tal20Department of Emergency Medicine, Shamir Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh Medical Center), Zerifin, IsraelSackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, IsraelDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Shamir Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh Medical Center), Zerifin, IsraelSackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, IsraelSackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, IsraelShamir Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh Medical Center), Zerifin, IsraelDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Shamir Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh Medical Center), Zerifin, IsraelSackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, IsraelFaculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, IsraelDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Shamir Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh Medical Center), Zerifin, IsraelSackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, IsraelDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Shamir Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh Medical Center), Zerifin, IsraelSackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, IsraelSackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, IsraelNursing Administration, Shamir Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh Medical Center), Zerifin, IsraelSackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, IsraelMedical Management, Shamir Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh Medical Center), Zerifin, IsraelSackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, IsraelMedical Management, Shamir Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh Medical Center), Zerifin, IsraelIsraeli Center for Emerging Technologies, Zerifin, IsraelDepartment of Management, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, IsraelIntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic has placed additional burden on already strained healthcare systems worldwide, intensifying the responsibility and burden of healthcare workers. Although most hospital staff continued working during this stressful and challenging unprecedented pandemic, differences in the characteristics and attributes were noted between sectors and hospital departments. Israeli healthcare workers are trained and experienced in coping with national emergencies, but the pandemic has exposed variations in staff reactions. Understanding the intrinsic differences between sectors and departments is a key factor in staff and hospital preparedness for unexpected events, better resource utilization for timely interventions to mitigate risk and improve staff wellbeing.ObjectiveTo identify and compare the level of resilience, secondary traumatization and burnout among hospital workers, between different sectors and hospital departments, during the COVID-19 pandemic.MethodsCross-sectional research to assess the resiliency, secondary traumatization and burnout of healthcare workers at a large general public hospital in central Israel. The sample consisted of 655 participants across various hospital units exposed to COVID-19 patients.ResultsEmergency department physicians had higher rates of resilience and lower rates of burnout and secondary traumatization than staff in other hospital departments. In contrast, staff from internal medicine departments demonstrated the highest levels of burnout (4.29). Overall, physicians demonstrated higher levels of resilience (7.26) and lower levels of burnout compared to other workers.ConclusionIdentifying resilience characteristics across hospital staff, sectors and departments can guide hospital management in education, preparation and training of healthcare workers for future large-scale health emergencies such as pandemics, natural disasters, and war.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1050261/fullresilienceburnoutCOVID-19 pandemichealthcare workersintensive care unitemergency department |
| spellingShingle | Daniel Trotzky Daniel Trotzky Uri Aizik Uri Aizik Jonathan Mosery Jonathan Mosery Natali Carady Natali Carady Guy Tavori Aya Cohen Aya Cohen Gal Pachys Gal Pachys Miri Avraham Miri Avraham Osnat Levtzion-Korach Osnat Levtzion-Korach Orna Tal Orna Tal Orna Tal Orna Tal Resilience of hospital staff facing COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons from Israel Frontiers in Public Health resilience burnout COVID-19 pandemic healthcare workers intensive care unit emergency department |
| title | Resilience of hospital staff facing COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons from Israel |
| title_full | Resilience of hospital staff facing COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons from Israel |
| title_fullStr | Resilience of hospital staff facing COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons from Israel |
| title_full_unstemmed | Resilience of hospital staff facing COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons from Israel |
| title_short | Resilience of hospital staff facing COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons from Israel |
| title_sort | resilience of hospital staff facing covid 19 pandemic lessons from israel |
| topic | resilience burnout COVID-19 pandemic healthcare workers intensive care unit emergency department |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1050261/full |
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