Response to NIOSH Request for Information on Interventions to Prevent Work-Related Stress and Support Health Worker Mental Health

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• Alternative Title:
  New Solut
• Personal Author:
  Punnett, Laura
• Description:
  The root causes of health care worker strain and depression include excessive job demands, extended work schedules, little decision-making opportunity, assault, bullying, and fear of injury. Potential links between working conditions and opioid overuse have also been discussed, beginning with psychological job strain or with physical pain leading to medication use. Promising solutions have been identified and many would be cost-effective, as enhanced working conditions could improve workers' mental health, job satisfaction, retention, and patient outcomes. Considering the number of health care workers leaving work during the global COVID-19 pandemic, it is urgent to address preventable root causes. In 2021, the US Congress called for educating health workers and first responders on the primary prevention of mental health conditions and substance use disorders. The CDC issued a Request for Information; this submission summarized research from CPH-NEW, a NIOSH Center of Excellence in |®, supplemented by a selective literature review.
• Subjects:
  COVID-19 Humans Mental Health National Institute For Occupational Safety And Health, U.S. Occupational Stress Pandemics United States
• Keywords:
  Health Personnel Psychosocial Factors Safety Workload Work Schedule Tolerance
• Source:
  New Solut. 32(3):223-229
• Pubmed ID:
  36147033
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC11484554
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  U19 OH008857/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/ ; U19 OH012299/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  32
• Issue:
  3
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1e7a7b40c06b44f4ae1b9dd91c3b537ceb8cebe72ece200d101660f079fe4bf3e88e68d5f657cf51cb322494d96f448f103108c5acacd47780d6975638b06748
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/166674/cdc_166674_DS1.pdf
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