Caring for COVID's emotional long haulers

Tye, Joe; Long, Kimberly; Blake, N. K.; Luu, Allison; Tye, Annie

doi:10.1097/01.numa.0000821720.94922.5a

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“…As one would expect, dealing with unprecedented numbers of severely ill patients and colleagues took a toll on HCW, some of whom began experiencing compassion fatigue, emotional hollowness, guilt at putting their family at risk, and signs of PTSD. Others became "emotional long haulers" (Tye et al, 2022). This term was coined to describe HCW suffering from both long-term work-related emotional trauma and challenges at home during the pandemic.…”

Section: From Idioms To Distress To Moral Distress In the Time Of Cov...mentioning

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From idioms of distress, concern, and care to moral distress leading to moral injury in the time of Covid

Nichter

2022

Transcult Psychiatry

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In this invited commentary on the thematic issue of Transcultural Psychiatry on idioms of distress, concern, and care, I provide a brief overview of how my research agenda evolved over the years while conducting community and clinic-based research in South and Southeast Asia as well as North America. I then suggest areas where future research on idioms of distress, concern, care, and resilience will be needed among different demographics given social change and shifts in how we communicate face to face and in virtual reality, the impact of medicalization, pharmaceuticalization and bracket creep, changes in indigenous healing systems, and hybridization. I further call attention to the importance of conducting idioms guided research in occupational settings. Toward this end I highlight the moral distress health care workers in the U.S. have experienced during the Covid-19 pandemic and point out the importance of differentiating individual burnout from moral injury related to structural distress. I conclude by discussing the general utility of an idioms of distress perspective in the practice of cultural psychiatry and suggest that this perspective needs to be included in the training of all practitioners regardless of the system of medicine they practice. Doing so may enable the formation of mental health communities of practice in contexts where there are pluralistic health care arenas.

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Section: From Idioms To Distress To Moral Distress In the Time Of Cov...mentioning

confidence: 99%

From idioms of distress, concern, and care to moral distress leading to moral injury in the time of Covid

Nichter

2022

Transcult Psychiatry

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“…As Tye and colleagues wrote in their article on caring for COVID's emotional long haulers, "The pandemic will leave behind a long tail of personal grief, emotional trauma, career and financial dislocation, anger and anxiety... We must be there for the caregivers who were there for us as they cope with the likely second pandemic of posttrauma moral and emotional injury." 6 Most healthcare workers don't think enough is being done to assure their emotional safety. Two surveys conducted for members of the Association of California Nurse Leaders and for participants in the 2022 National Evidence-Based Practice Conference included the question, "Do you think that your staff believes the organization is doing enough for their mental and emotional well-being?"…”

Section: A Pervasive Sense Of Dreadmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Because these negative emotions can have a deleterious impact on patient-care outcomes, morale, turnover, and virtually every other dimension of a healthcare organization's operations, leaders have an obligation to provide a culture of emotional safety. As Tye and colleagues wrote in their article on caring for COVID's emotional long haulers, “The pandemic will leave behind a long tail of personal grief, emotional trauma, career and financial dislocation, anger and anxiety... We must be there for the caregivers who were there for us as they cope with the likely second pandemic of post-trauma moral and emotional injury.”6…”

Section: A Pervasive Sense Of Dreadmentioning

confidence: 99%