Caring For Healthcare Professionals During COVID-19 Crisis: Integrating Simulation Training With Hospital System Towards Actualizing Occupational Safety, Health And Well-Being

Little is known of the experiences of directly employed care workers communicating with healthcare providers about the situations of their employers. We report findings from 30 in-depth semi-structured interviews with directly employed care workers in England undertaken in 2018–19. Findings relate to role content, communication with healthcare professionals and their own well-being. Directly employed care workers need to be flexible about the tasks they perform and the changing needs of those whom they support. Having to take on health liaison roles can be problematic, and the impact of care work on directly employed workers’ own health and well-being needs further investigation.

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Forest bathing: a narrative review of the effects on health for outdoor and environmental education use in Canada

10.31236/osf.io/j6mq3 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Sandrine Mathias ◽

Patrick Daigle ◽

Kelsey Needham Dancause ◽

Tegwen Gadais

Keyword(s):

Health Professionals ◽

Healthcare Professionals ◽

Well Being ◽

Alternative Intervention ◽

Education And Health ◽

Canadian Context ◽

French And English ◽

Narrative Literature ◽

Narrative Literature Review ◽

Health And Well Being

Background: Education and health professionals from a range of disciplines seek alternatives to promote well-being through nature. Shinrin Yoku, originating from Japan, means “forest baths” or “taking in the forest atmosphere” and provides the opportunity to reconnect with nature and its benefits, with great potential in Canada. This brief review aims to highlight the potential for the use of Shinrin Yoku in the Canadian context of education and healthcare. Methods: We conducted a narrative literature review including a search of four French and English databases (Google Scholar, Pubmed, Scopus, Cairn) from 1985 to 2017. Then, we classified 26 articles according to three main categories that emerged from the first reading of the abstracts. Results: Benefits of Shinrin Yoku have been classified into physiological, psychological, and environmental categories. We synthesize key benefits of Shinrin Yoku and highlight opportunities to use this alternative intervention by educators and health professionals in Canada. Conclusion: A growing body of research suggests that Shinrin Yoku can have benefits on many aspects of an individual's health and well-being. Given the resources already available in Canada, Shinrin Yoku could be integrated into existing programs and interventions, and could provide another option to educators and healthcare professionals seeking low-risk educational and intervention alternatives for their students and patients.

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Health care of immigrant patients in Italy: the perspective of health professionals

Medicina e Morale ◽

10.4081/mem.2021.936 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 70 (2) ◽

pp. 183-194

Author(s):

Claudia Spinosa ◽

Laura Angioletti ◽

Michela Balconi

Keyword(s):

Healthcare Professionals ◽

Well Being ◽

Depth Information ◽

Analysis Method ◽

Cultural Backgrounds ◽

Healthcare Facilities ◽

Foreign Population ◽

Quantitative Analysis Method ◽

Specific Care ◽

Health And Well Being

Within a multicultural society, healthcare professionals (HPs) need to implement specific care pathways to meet the needs of patients with different cultural backgrounds who regularly present themselves in healthcare facilities in Italy. This study intends to examine the experiences and representations lived by HPs who deal with the care and management of foreign immigrant patients living in Italy, with chronic diseases. For this goal, a survey was conducted on a sample of 54 HPs recruited in hospital and outpatient facilities. The survey was analyzed with a quantitative analysis method. The results underlined that it is necessary to provide specific training paths to work with chronic immigrant patients, standardizing the training of medical staff both in hospitals and clinics, and providing for other types of professionals specialized in relations with foreign patients, to respond to all requests from foreign users, and not just healthcare ones. This study proposes a new survey model aimed at obtaining in-depth information on the representation of HPs towards the health and well-being of chronic immigrant patients, to provide concrete answers to the needs of the foreign population, providing for the collaboration of several specialised professionals.

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84 Occupational safety and health and well-being in future work and working life

Injury Prevention ◽

10.1136/injuryprev-2016-042156.84 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 22 (Suppl 2) ◽

pp. A32.2-A32

Author(s):

Päivi Mattila-Wiro ◽

Päivi Hämäläinen

Keyword(s):

Occupational Safety ◽

Working Life ◽

Well Being ◽

Occupational Safety And Health ◽

Safety And Health ◽

Future Work ◽

Health And Well Being

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Two online resources to improve healthcare professionals' health and well-being: Lessons learned from a comprehensive evaluation

Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine ◽

10.1109/itab.2010.5687780 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

C. J. MacDonald ◽

H. Kellam ◽

D. Archibald ◽

D. Puddester ◽

R. Sun ◽

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Keyword(s):

Healthcare Professionals ◽

Comprehensive Evaluation ◽

Well Being ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Online Resources ◽

Health And Well Being

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Communicating about suicide during a global pandemic: impact on journalists and media audiences

Media International Australia ◽

10.1177/1329878x20956415 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1329878X2095641

Author(s):

Alexandra Wake ◽

Elizabeth Paton ◽

Rebecca Pryor

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Occupational Safety ◽

Well Being ◽

Health Issues ◽

Media Audiences ◽

Mental Health Issues ◽

Global Pandemic ◽

Personal Stress ◽

Health And Well Being ◽

Accurate Reporting

COVID-19 has brought with it an increase in predictions of mental ill-health and suicide impacts in Australia. For journalists, it has been a period not only of personal stress about their economic livelihoods and occupational safety, but also balancing providing up to date information about the pandemic with safe, sensitive and accurate reporting on associated suicide and mental health issues. Mindframe offers guidelines, resources and individualised support to help manage the complexities of reporting on suicide in this global pandemic, working with media to protect people in their audience who are vulnerable to suicide while also helping journalists protect their own mental health and well being.

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Beyond Scientific Mechanisms: Subjective Perceptions with Viniyoga Meditation

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph16122200 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 16 (12) ◽

pp. 2200

Author(s):

Carrie Heeter ◽

Marcel Allbritton ◽

Chase Bossart

Keyword(s):

Healthcare Professionals ◽

Well Being ◽

Subjective Experiences ◽

Yoga Therapy ◽

Subjective Perceptions ◽

Self Reports ◽

The Individual ◽

Prior Experiences ◽

Body Practices ◽

Health And Well Being

Healthcare professionals and research scientists generally recognize the potential value of mind–body practices grounded in ancient wisdom, but often have limited direct experience with such practices. Meditation participant self-reports provide a window into subjective experiences of three Viniyoga meditations and how and why those meditations could contribute to health and well-being outcomes. Each of the meditations in this analysis had a unique structure and used a different aspect of the ocean as a meditation object. Yoga philosophy and yoga anatomy models of the human system are used to help explain participants’ experiences and associated personal benefits and insights. Four aspects of the individual that can influence what happens for them in meditation are illustrated with tangible examples: (1) What is happening in generally in someone’s life; (2) the state of their system (mind, body, breath) around the time of the meditation; (3) reactions to the meditation steps and instructions; and (4) their prior experiences with the object of meditation. Summaries of the practices, and why and for whom each meditation might be beneficial are discussed. The authors’ perspectives are grounded in Viniyoga and yoga therapy.

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