MedPage Today October 24, 2023
— “To label our current and long-standing challenge a ‘crisis’ is an understatement”
Healthcare workers reported increasing numbers of poor mental health days and increasing feelings of burnout from 2018 to 2022, although these issues were less common among those who trusted management and had help from their supervisor, a CDC study found.
“While usually health workers care diligently for others in time of need, it’s now health workers who are suffering, and we must act,” said Deborah Houry, MD, MPH, the CDC’s chief medical officer, on a phone call with reporters Tuesday.
The Vital Signs report analyzed data from the General Social Survey Quality of Worklife Module. The module contains questions on working and mental health conditions and is...
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