Health and social care workers’ quality of working life and coping while working during the COVID-19 pandemic 7th May – 3rd July 2020: findings from a UK Survey

TY - BOOK

T1 - Health and social care workers’ quality of working life and coping while working during the COVID-19 pandemic 7th May – 3rd July 2020: findings from a UK Survey

AU - McFadden, Paula

AU - Gillen, Patricia

AU - Moriarty, John

AU - Mallett, John

AU - Schroder, Heike

AU - Ravalier, Jermaine

AU - Manthorpe, Jill

AU - Harron, Jaclyn

AU - Currie, Denise

PY - 2020/11/10

Y1 - 2020/11/10

N2 - In December 2019, a novel coronavirus emerged (COVID-19) which was quickly designated a pandemic with all countries urged to take ‘urgent and aggressive action’ (WHO 2020). Worldwide social and economic disruption for governments and their citizens followed with a rising death toll and efforts to prepare, protect and treat citizens impacting across all sectors in society. While it was clear that trying to fight this pandemic is everybody’s business (WHO 2020), the task of caring for affected individuals and their families in the UK has fallen to an already greatly pressured, understaffed and underfunded health and social care sector, and those who work within it. In April 2020, funding was secured from Northern Ireland Social Care Council (NI SCC) and the Southern Health and Social Care Trust to support the dissemination of an online survey to nurses, midwives, Allied Health Professionals (AHPs), social care workers and social workers in the UK, with support from other funders following. The aim was to explore the impact of providing health and social care during a pandemic on the UK health and social care workforce. A survey questionnaire measured Well-being, Quality of Working Life, and ways of coping whilst working during the pandemic. Work and home life segmentation was also explored. Additional open-ended questions sought further detail from respondents on how the pandemic had affected their work and work setting, what employers had done to support their staff, lessons that could be learned for future pandemics and normal health and social care provision. The perceptions of health and social care workers about the ‘Clap for Carers’ initiative was also garnered.

AB - In December 2019, a novel coronavirus emerged (COVID-19) which was quickly designated a pandemic with all countries urged to take ‘urgent and aggressive action’ (WHO 2020). Worldwide social and economic disruption for governments and their citizens followed with a rising death toll and efforts to prepare, protect and treat citizens impacting across all sectors in society. While it was clear that trying to fight this pandemic is everybody’s business (WHO 2020), the task of caring for affected individuals and their families in the UK has fallen to an already greatly pressured, understaffed and underfunded health and social care sector, and those who work within it. In April 2020, funding was secured from Northern Ireland Social Care Council (NI SCC) and the Southern Health and Social Care Trust to support the dissemination of an online survey to nurses, midwives, Allied Health Professionals (AHPs), social care workers and social workers in the UK, with support from other funders following. The aim was to explore the impact of providing health and social care during a pandemic on the UK health and social care workforce. A survey questionnaire measured Well-being, Quality of Working Life, and ways of coping whilst working during the pandemic. Work and home life segmentation was also explored. Additional open-ended questions sought further detail from respondents on how the pandemic had affected their work and work setting, what employers had done to support their staff, lessons that could be learned for future pandemics and normal health and social care provision. The perceptions of health and social care workers about the ‘Clap for Carers’ initiative was also garnered.

M3 - Commissioned report

BT - Health and social care workers’ quality of working life and coping while working during the COVID-19 pandemic 7th May – 3rd July 2020: findings from a UK Survey

PB - University of Ulster Press

CY - Belfast

ER -