The Courage to Continue: Healthcare Social Worker’s Resilience During COVID-19

IF 1.6 Q2 SOCIAL WORK

Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI:10.1080/15524256.2022.2070330

Jennifer Currin-McCulloch, Qi Chen, Shivani Kaushik, Dede Sparks, Barbara Jones

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Abstract

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated disparities in access to healthcare and mental health, often forcing healthcare social workers into ethical and moral dilemmas as they endeavor to provide equitable, humanistic care to their patients and caregivers. The purpose of this mixed method study was to explore how COVID-19-related personal and professional grief and losses impacted healthcare social worker’s distress and resilience. Participants were recruited through healthcare social work professional organizations from September-November 2020. Participants (N = 246) completed an online survey capturing sociodemographic variables, as well as mental distress, pandemic-related meaning-making, and resilience. Data analysis included correlations and regressions pertaining to meaning-making, emotional distress, and resilience, as well as thematic analysis of participants’ open-ended survey responses. Approximately one-third of participants reported emotional distress and difficulty in finding meaning from their pandemic-related losses. Participants reported a lower level of resilience when compared with the United States general population. Three themes emerged from social workers’ qualitative responses: the hardest year of my career; the collective loss of our normal; and we were built for this. Pandemic-related grief permeates social workers’ daily lives; yet their training and resilience foster hope to positively impact their clients, communities, and families.

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继续的勇气:医疗保健社会工作者在COVID-19期间的复原力

COVID-19大流行加剧了获得医疗保健和心理健康方面的差距，往往迫使卫生保健社会工作者在努力为患者和照顾者提供公平、人道的护理时陷入伦理和道德困境。本混合方法研究的目的是探讨与covid -19相关的个人和职业悲伤和损失如何影响卫生保健社会工作者的痛苦和复原力。参与者于2020年9月至11月通过医疗保健社会工作专业组织招募。参与者(N = 246)完成了一项在线调查，调查内容包括社会人口学变量、精神困扰、与流行病相关的意义建构和复原力。数据分析包括与意义创造、情绪困扰和复原力有关的相关性和回归，以及对参与者开放式调查反应的主题分析。大约三分之一的参与者报告情绪低落，难以从与大流行有关的损失中找到意义。与美国普通人群相比，参与者报告的恢复力水平较低。社会工作者的定性回答中出现了三个主题:我职业生涯中最艰难的一年;集体失去了我们的常态;我们就是为此而生的。与大流行相关的悲伤弥漫在社会工作者的日常生活中;然而，他们的训练和韧性培养了对客户、社区和家庭产生积极影响的希望。

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Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care SOCIAL WORK-

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2.60

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12.50%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care, now affiliated with the Social Work in Hospice and Palliative Care Network, explores issues crucial to caring for terminally ill patients and their families. Academics and social work practitioners present current research, articles, and continuing features on the "state of the art" of social work practice, including interdisciplinary interventions, practice innovations, practice evaluations, end-of-life decision-making, grief and bereavement, and ethical and moral issues. The Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care combines theory and practice to facilitate an understanding of the multi-level issues surrounding care for those in pain and suffering from painful, debilitating, and/or terminal illness.