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000110879 100__ $$aMira, José Joaquín
000110879 245__ $$aAddressing acute stress among professionals caring for COVID-19 patients: lessons learned during the first outbreak in Spain (March–April 2020)
000110879 260__ $$c2021
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000110879 5203_ $$aTo describe lessons learned during the first COVID-19 outbreak in developing urgent interventions to strengthen healthcare workers’ capacity to cope with acute stress caused by health care pressure, concern about becoming infected, despair of witnessing patients’ suffering, and critical decision-making requirements of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic during the first outbreak in Spain. Methods: A task force integrated by healthcare professionals and academics was activated following the first observations of acute stress reactions starting to compromise the professionals’ capacity for caring COVID-19 patients. Literature review and qualitative approach (consensus techniques) were applied. The target population included health professionals in primary care, hospitals, emergencies, and nursing homes. Interventions designed for addressing acute stress were agreed and disseminated. Findings: There are similarities in stressors to previous outbreaks, and the solutions devised then may work now. A set of issues, interventions to cope with, and their levels of evidence were defined. Issues and interventions were classified as: adequate communication initiative to strengthen work morale (avoiding information blackouts, uniformity of criteria, access to updated information, mentoring new professionals); resilience and recovery from physical and mental fatigue (briefings, protecting the family, regulated recovery time during the day, psychological first aid, humanizing care); reinforce leadership of intermediate commands (informative leadership, transparency, realism, and positive messages, the current state of emergency has not allowed for an empirical analysis of the effectiveness of proposed interventions. Sharing information to gauge expectations, listening to what professionals need, feeling protected from threats, organizational flexibility, encouraging teamwork, and leadership that promotes psychological safety have led to more positive responses. Attention to the needs of individuals must be combined with caring for the teams responsible for patient care. Conclusions: Although the COVID-19 pandemic has a more devastating effect than other recent outbreaks, there are common stressors and lessons learned in all of them that we must draw on to increase our capacity to respond to future healthcare crises.
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000110879 593__ $$aHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis$$c2021$$dQ1
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000110879 700__ $$aCobos Vargas, Ángel
000110879 700__ $$aAstier Peña, Maria Pilar
000110879 700__ $$aPérez Pérez, Pastora
000110879 700__ $$aCarrillo, Irene
000110879 700__ $$aGuilabert, Mercedes
000110879 700__ $$aPérez Jover, Virtudes
000110879 700__ $$aFernández Peris, Cesar
000110879 700__ $$aVicente Ripoll, María Asunción
000110879 700__ $$aSilvestre Busto, Carmen
000110879 700__ $$aLorenzo Martínez, Susana
000110879 700__ $$aMartin Delgado, Jimmy
000110879 700__ $$0(orcid)0000-0001-9714-8105$$aAibar, Carlos$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza
000110879 700__ $$aAranaz, Jesús
000110879 7102_ $$11011$$2615$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Microb.Ped.Radio.Sal.Pú.$$cÁrea Medic.Prevent.Salud Públ.
000110879 773__ $$g18 (2021), 12010 [19 pp.]$$pInt. j. environ. res. public health$$tInternational journal of environmental research and public health$$x1661-7827
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