Division of Pediatric Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, Saint Louis University School of Medicine (STL SOM).
Department of Psychology, STL SOM.
Mo Med. 2024 May-Jun;121(3):220-224.
Acute stress, post-traumatic stress and burnout are all stress-related mental health problems common to patients, families, physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals across disciplines. They are particularly common in those who care for critically ill and injured children. Despite growing awareness of the pervasiveness of burnout and stress among healthcare workers and families in the pediatric intensive care unit, there remain important gaps in the knowledge of factors affecting the development of stress-related mental illnesses, how individual and institutional factors protect or exacerbate these problems, and effective measures to limit or mitigate them. Challenges exist in developing and maintaining institutional engagement with essentially non-revenue generating activities that require additional staff. For academic institutions, significant opportunities exist for cross-departmental collaboration. We describe our five-year experience developing a multidisciplinary group investigating these problems and providing interventions to professionals and families in the pediatric intensive care unit.
急性应激、创伤后应激和倦怠都是与压力相关的心理健康问题，在不同学科的患者、家属、医生、护士和相关医疗保健专业人员中都很常见。它们在照顾重病和受伤儿童的人员中尤为常见。尽管人们越来越意识到儿科重症监护病房医护人员和家属中存在倦怠和压力的普遍性，但对于影响与压力相关的精神疾病发展的因素、个体和机构因素如何保护或加剧这些问题，以及限制或减轻这些问题的有效措施，仍存在重要的知识空白。在开发和维护与基本上没有收入的活动的机构参与方面存在挑战，这些活动需要额外的工作人员。对于学术机构来说，跨部门合作有很大的机会。我们描述了我们五年的经验，发展了一个多学科小组，研究这些问题，并为儿科重症监护病房的专业人员和家属提供干预措施。
