Adversity Activated Development in Staff during the COVID-19 Pandemic [COVID-19]
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Understanding and Promoting Adversity Activated Development in Community and Mental Healthcare Staff in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic\n
IRAS ID
285465
Contact name
Frank Rohricht
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Sponsor organisation
East London NHS Foundation Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 10 months, 0 days
Research summary
1.4 million NHS staff are caring for patients. COVID-19 is having a severe impact on their mental health. Half are suffering stress and trauma. Understanding and promoting psychological resilience amongst healthcare staff is a national priority. International work with healthcare workers in highly adverse circumstances suggests that monitoring and reflecting on Adversity Activated Developments promotes staff well-being.\nThis study will identify (1) adversity-activated negative and positive developments experienced by staff over 6-months (2) experiences associated with anxiety/depression and wellbeing (3) whether monitoring developments using the Adversity Reflection Tool is positively experienced by staff (4) personal, organisational and environmental risk/protective factors predicting post-traumatic growth, anxiety/depression and wellbeing. It will focus on community/mental healthcare staff who are less well supported than acute staff but face complex decision making working in isolation or small teams.\nAn online questionnaire will be sent to >18,000 staff at baseline, 4 weeks, 3 and 6 months in NHS Trusts delivering community/mental healthcare comprising: sociodemographic information; risk/protective factors; adversity-activated development; post-traumatic growth; depression/anxiety; and well-being. Using repeated measures mixed linear regression models, we will determine what adversity activated positive/negative developments and risk/protective factors predict changes in post-traumatic growth, depression, anxiety and well-being. Narrative responses will be thematically analysed: themes associated with positive/negative developments can inform initiatives to support staff.\nWe will deliver a resource-oriented reflective tool for staff to understand and promote resilience. Findings will be disseminated locally and nationally.
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