Healio (12/1, Gramigna) reports, “Healthcare professionals experienced fear of infection, short staffing and inadequate protective equipment during the pandemic in 2020, resulting in emotional distress,” researchers concluded in a study that “recruited healthcare professionals to answer a survey in two phases of five weeks each: April 24, 2020, to May 30, 2020 (phase one; n = 335; 86% women), and October 24, 2020, to Nov. 30, 2020 (phase two; n = 1,009; 90.5% women),” receiving “responses from 1,831 individuals on demographic questions and assessments for moral injury, intrinsic religiosity and burnout.” The findings were published online Nov. 24 in JAMA Network Open.
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— “Health care workers faced moral injury during pandemic “Joe Gramigna, Healio, December 1, 2021