About this Research Topic
The work environment can be considered one of the main determining factors that can influence the mental health of workers, especially as it regards the structural and organizational conditions to which the worker is subjected. This work environment has positive effects when work provides satisfaction and well-being or negative effects provoked by situations of stress, inadequate working patterns and schedules, possible situations of abuse and/or harassment, etc., which may contribute to the appearance of alterations in the mental health of the worker.
Healthcare workers are exposed to a multitude of adverse risks and working conditions in the exercise of their duties, such as staff shortages, excessive workloads, night shifts, long work shifts, a high number of hours worked per week, a high frequency of rotation between services, and high psychological burden, due to the management of critical situations, among others. All these working conditions make the work carried out by healthcare workers particularly stressful and diverse, in which risks of various kinds coexist where psychosocial risk factors are the most frequent and, if appropriate measures are not taken or adequate work resources do not exist, can, thus, lead to manifestations of high levels of stress, anxiety, insomnia, emotional overload, fatigue, exhaustion, and loss of work engagement, mainly as a result of the nature of their work and the place where they perform their work.
Considering these points, this Research Topic aims to evaluate the mental health of healthcare workers and its associations with psychosocial work conditions. Specific themes welcome into this collection include:
-Relationship between work engagement, psychosocial risks, and mental health among healthcare workers;
- Work conditions in especially vulnerable workers (pregnant, in training, novice, functional diversity, etc.)
- Suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in healthcare professionals;
- The impact of disease changes and mental health illness on readapted return to work after repeated sick leaves among healthcare workers;
-Mediating effect of work stress in the relationship between fear of COVID-19 and healthcare workers' organizational and professional turnover intentions;
- Perceived risk and mental health problems among healthcare professionals during COVID-19 Pandemic;
- Mindfulness and subjective well-being: mediating effect of assertiveness;
- Effects of an online stigma‐reduction program for people experiencing mental health conditions;
-Healthcare workers' mental health clinical placements, clinical confidence, and stigma surrounding mental illness;
- Job satisfaction, work environment, and intention to leave among healthcare workers.
The following article types will be considered for this collection: Original Research and Systematic Review.
Healthcare workers are exposed to a multitude of adverse risks and working conditions in the exercise of their duties, such as staff shortages, excessive workloads, night shifts, long work shifts, a high number of hours worked per week, a high frequency of rotation between services, and high psychological burden, due to the management of critical situations, among others. All these working conditions make the work carried out by healthcare workers particularly stressful and diverse, in which risks of various kinds coexist where psychosocial risk factors are the most frequent and, if appropriate measures are not taken or adequate work resources do not exist, can, thus, lead to manifestations of high levels of stress, anxiety, insomnia, emotional overload, fatigue, exhaustion, and loss of work engagement, mainly as a result of the nature of their work and the place where they perform their work.
Considering these points, this Research Topic aims to evaluate the mental health of healthcare workers and its associations with psychosocial work conditions. Specific themes welcome into this collection include:
-Relationship between work engagement, psychosocial risks, and mental health among healthcare workers;
- Work conditions in especially vulnerable workers (pregnant, in training, novice, functional diversity, etc.)
- Suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in healthcare professionals;
- The impact of disease changes and mental health illness on readapted return to work after repeated sick leaves among healthcare workers;
-Mediating effect of work stress in the relationship between fear of COVID-19 and healthcare workers' organizational and professional turnover intentions;
- Perceived risk and mental health problems among healthcare professionals during COVID-19 Pandemic;
- Mindfulness and subjective well-being: mediating effect of assertiveness;
- Effects of an online stigma‐reduction program for people experiencing mental health conditions;
-Healthcare workers' mental health clinical placements, clinical confidence, and stigma surrounding mental illness;
- Job satisfaction, work environment, and intention to leave among healthcare workers.
The following article types will be considered for this collection: Original Research and Systematic Review.
Keywords: Resilience, Mental Health, Occupational health, Public health, Health personnel, Mental health disorders, Risk factors, Psychological distress, Burnout, Anxiety, Job demands-resources model, Work condition, Job satisfaction, Well-being, Happiness
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