School of Social Work, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
Steve Hicks School of Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin Steve Hicks School of Social Work, Austin, TX, USA.
J Soc Work End Life Palliat Care. 2022 Apr-Jun;18(2):177-192. doi: 10.1080/15524256.2022.2070330. Epub 2022 May 4.
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 ( = 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: and . Pandemic-related grief permeates social workers' daily lives; yet their training and resilience foster hope to positively impact their clients, communities, and families.
新冠疫情加剧了医疗保健和心理健康方面的差距，这使得医疗社工在努力为患者和护理人员提供公平、人性化的护理时，常常陷入伦理和道德困境。本混合方法研究旨在探讨与新冠疫情相关的个人和职业悲痛与损失如何影响医疗社工的困扰和适应力。研究于 2020 年 9 月至 11 月期间，通过医疗社工专业组织招募参与者。参与者（n=246）完成了一份在线调查，其中包括人口统计学变量、心理困扰、与疫情相关的意义构建和适应力。数据分析包括与意义构建、情绪困扰和适应力相关的相关性和回归分析，以及对参与者开放式调查回答的主题分析。大约三分之一的参与者报告了情绪困扰和难以从与疫情相关的损失中找到意义。与美国一般人群相比，参与者的适应力较低。社工的定性回应中出现了三个主题：疫情相关的悲痛弥漫在社工的日常生活中；然而，他们的培训和适应力培养了希望，以积极影响他们的客户、社区和家庭。
