Global prevalence of resilience in health care professionals: A systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression.

AIMS

This review aims to examine the prevalence estimate of low resilience among health care professionals and identify the factors affecting the prevalence.

BACKGROUND

Health care professionals experience high levels of stress. Understanding the health care professionals' resilience may provide an insight into how they perform in a highly stressed environment.

EVALUATION

A comprehensive search of 11 databases was conducted. Studies that provided prevalence rates for low resilience among health care professionals working in a health care setting were included. Meta-analyses, sensitivity, subgroup analyses and meta-regression were conducted.

KEY ISSUES

Among 27,720 studies, 41 studies (N = 17,073) across 16 countries were included. The prevalence of low resilience was 26% (95% CI: 20-32). Subgroup analyses indicated that types of resilience measures affect resilience prevalence significantly. A higher prevalence of low resilience was observed among allied health professions during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Middle East.

CONCLUSIONS

This review indicated the prevalence of low resilience and type of resilience measurement instruments that affected the prevalence.

IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING MANAGEMENT

This review provides a roadmap to design tailored, discipline-specific and sustainable resilience training for nurses. Nursing managers should monitor the working hours and workload of nursing staffing in order to provide a protective working environment. This is a systematic review, and the PROSPERO registration number is CRD42021235350.