Healthcare workers’ moral distress during the COVID-19 pandemic : a scoping review

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dc.contributor.authorNagle, Evija
dc.contributor.authorŠuriņa, Sanita
dc.contributor.authorGriškēviča, Ingūna
dc.contributor.institutionDepartment of Health Psychology and Paedagogy
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-30T06:10:01Z
dc.date.available2023-06-30T06:10:01Z
dc.date.issued2023-06-26
dc.descriptionPublisher Copyright: © 2023 by the authors.
dc.description.abstractDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers (HCWs) did not have the opportunity to provide high-quality and standard healthcare services. Research conducted during the pandemic has revealed widespread mental health problems among HCWs. Moral distress was noted as one of the critical issues that limited the performance of HCWs in providing quality care. The purpose of this scoping review was to create an overview of HCWs’ moral distress during the COVID-19 pandemic. The review was conducted according to the Arksey and O’Malley framework. A systematic literature search was performed in five database systems: Medline/PubMed, Science Direct, Scopus, ProQuest, and the Cochrane Library, according to the inclusion/exclusion criteria. Relevant article titles and abstracts were retrieved. The final review included 16 publications identifying the moral distress of HCWs during the pandemic. In total, five themes characterizing the moral distress of HCWs during the COVID-19 pandemic were identified: (1) a level of moral distress during the COVID-19 pandemic; (2) risk factors for moral distress during the COVID-19 pandemic; (3) moral and ethical dilemmas during the COVID-19 pandemic; (4) harm caused by moral distress to HCWs; and (5) intervention methods for reducing moral distress. The pandemic turned a health emergency into a mental health emergency for HCWs.en
dc.description.statusPeer reviewed
dc.format.extent836906
dc.identifier.citationNagle, E, Šuriņa, S & Griškēviča, I 2023, 'Healthcare workers’ moral distress during the COVID-19 pandemic : a scoping review', Social Sciences, vol. 12, no. 7, 371. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12070371
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/socsci12070371
dc.identifier.issn2076-0760
dc.identifier.otherMendeley: 4615a406-28bd-3ba8-98c6-e95f70215fe9
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.rsu.lv/jspui/handle/123456789/12699
dc.identifier.urlhttps://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/4615a406-28bd-3ba8-98c6-e95f70215fe9/
dc.identifier.urlhttp://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85166410186&partnerID=8YFLogxK
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofSocial Sciences
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectmoral distress
dc.subjectethical dilemmas
dc.subjecthealthcare workers (HCWs)
dc.subjectCOVID-19
dc.subject5.1 Psychology
dc.subject1.1. Scientific article indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database
dc.subjectGeneral Social Sciences
dc.titleHealthcare workers’ moral distress during the COVID-19 pandemic : a scoping reviewen
dc.type/dk/atira/pure/researchoutput/researchoutputtypes/contributiontojournal/systematicreview

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