TY - JOUR
T1 - Mental health support in the transplantation workforce
T2 - what can we learn from the COVID-19 pandemic?
AU - Fernando, Bimbi
AU - Reynolds, Toby
AU - Izzy, Manhal
AU - Kirchner, Varvara A.
AU - Wren, Barbara
AU - Spiro, Michael
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/8/1
Y1 - 2021/8/1
N2 - Burnout (defined as a state of depersonalization, emotional exhaustion, and a sense of reduced achievement) is a risk to all health care workers. The transplantation workforce not only faces the same challenges but also many others linked to the unique work and setting in which they deliver health care. In the past, the mental health care of the transplantation workforce has been sidelined, rather than prioritized. The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has not only compromised the safe delivery of transplant organs worldwide but has magnified the challenges for the transplantation workforce. especially with the high mortality in transplant patients who are infected with SARS-CoV-2. This review addresses the challenges to the mental well-being and psychological health of health care providers, both generally and within the sphere of transplantation, and not only highlights some of the inadequacies but also proposes strategies to establish psychological interventions that could benefit health care professionals within transplantation.
AB - Burnout (defined as a state of depersonalization, emotional exhaustion, and a sense of reduced achievement) is a risk to all health care workers. The transplantation workforce not only faces the same challenges but also many others linked to the unique work and setting in which they deliver health care. In the past, the mental health care of the transplantation workforce has been sidelined, rather than prioritized. The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has not only compromised the safe delivery of transplant organs worldwide but has magnified the challenges for the transplantation workforce. especially with the high mortality in transplant patients who are infected with SARS-CoV-2. This review addresses the challenges to the mental well-being and psychological health of health care providers, both generally and within the sphere of transplantation, and not only highlights some of the inadequacies but also proposes strategies to establish psychological interventions that could benefit health care professionals within transplantation.
KW - Coronavirus disease 2019
KW - Health care worker
KW - Posttraumatic stress disorder
KW - Psychological health
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U2 - 10.6002/ect.2020.0458
DO - 10.6002/ect.2020.0458
M3 - Review article
C2 - 33736587
AN - SCOPUS:85112773289
SN - 1304-0855
VL - 19
SP - 763
EP - 770
JO - Experimental and Clinical Transplantation
JF - Experimental and Clinical Transplantation
IS - 8
ER -