Navigating dual crises: mental health of Czech health care workers during the Ukrainian refugee influx and COVID-19 pandemic
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11120/25:43928059
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/20008066.2025.2455247" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1080/20008066.2025.2455247</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20008066.2025.2455247" target="_blank" >10.1080/20008066.2025.2455247</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Navigating dual crises: mental health of Czech health care workers during the Ukrainian refugee influx and COVID-19 pandemic
Original language description
Background: European health care workers recently experienced serious challenges to their mental health. Following the extremely stressful experience of the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine caused a humanitarian influx of refugees in need of social and healthcare. We aimed to explore: (1) how working with refugees has affected the mental well-being of health care workers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, and (2) the nature of health care workers' emotional strain related to the refugee situation and the war in Ukraine.Methods: We used a combination of quantitative regression analyses and qualitative content analysis to assess data collected by an online questionnaire in 2022. The study included 1121 health care workers from the Czech arm of the international HEROES Study.Results: Quantitative findings did not indicate that working with Ukrainian refugees was reliably associated with a greater occurrence of symptoms of depression, anxiety, distress, or burnout. Qualitative analysis revealed five categories of emotional strain: impacts on working conditions, emotional reactions to refugees and the war, comparisons with the COVID-19 pandemic, and coping strategies.Conclusions: This study highlights the resilience of health care workers but also points to the need for ongoing support to address the complex emotional challenges they face during health crises. Antecedentes: El personal sanitario europeo ha experimentado recientemente graves problemas para su salud mental. Tras la experiencia extremadamente estresante de la pandemia de COVID-19, la guerra de Ucrania provoc & oacute; una afluencia humanitaria de refugiados necesitados de asistencia social y sanitaria. Nuestro objetivo era explorar (1) c & oacute;mo ha afectado el trabajo con refugiados al bienestar mental de los trabajadores sanitarios en el contexto de la pandemia COVID-19, y (2) la naturaleza de la tensi & oacute;n emocional de los trabajadores sanitarios relacionada con la situaci & oacute;n de los refugiados y la guerra en Ucrania.M & eacute;todos: Se utiliz & oacute; una combinaci & oacute;n de an & aacute;lisis de regresi & oacute;n cuantitativa y an & aacute;lisis de contenido cualitativo para evaluar los datos recogidos mediante un cuestionario en l & iacute;nea en 2022. El estudio incluy & oacute; a 1.121 trabajadores sanitarios de la rama checa del estudio internacional HEROES.Resultados: Los hallazgos cuantitativos no indicaron que trabajar con refugiados ucranianos estuviera asociado de forma fiable con una mayor aparici & oacute;n de s & iacute;ntomas de depresi & oacute;n, ansiedad, angustia o agotamiento. El an & aacute;lisis cualitativo revel & oacute; cinco categor & iacute;as de tensi & oacute;n emocional: impacto en las condiciones de trabajo, reacciones emocionales ante los refugiados y la guerra, comparaciones con la pandemia COVID-19 y estrategias de afrontamiento.Conclusiones: Este estudio destaca la resiliencia de los trabajadores sanitarios, pero tambi & eacute;n se & ntilde;ala la necesidad de apoyo continuo para abordar los complejos desaf & iacute;os emocionales a los que se enfrentan durante las crisis sanitarias.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30215 - Psychiatry
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
European Journal of Psychotraumatology
ISSN
2000-8198
e-ISSN
2000-8066
Volume of the periodical
16
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
SE - SWEDEN
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
"Article Number 2455247"
UT code for WoS article
001412817900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85216955501