391 - Underappreciated: The COVID-19 Pandemic's Mental Health Effects On Non-Clinical Health Care Workers
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Fear of COVID exposure and overflowing hospital units are two of the known stressors contributing to burnout among nurses and doctors. But there are a slew of other factors exacerbating health care workers' distress—many of which don't just affect clinical staff. Researchers Dr. Johannes Thrul and Dr. Svea Closser talk with Stephanie Desmon about a recent report from the Center For Health Security looking at the pandemic burnout and anxiety on people often left out of the "Health Care Heroes" narratives—and lower on the payscale—such as security staff, cleaners, and food workers in hospitals.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 4 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former Commissioner of Health in Baltimore City. |
| 0:20.0 | Our goal is to bring |
| 0:21.7 | scientific evidence and experience to current topics in public health through engaging interviews |
| 0:27.1 | with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public health officials, clinicians, and more. |
| 0:32.8 | If you have ideas or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question at jh.edu. |
| 0:40.4 | That's public health question at jhhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:46.6 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of public health on call. |
| 0:50.5 | Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Johannes Truel and Svea Klosser about a new report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security on the mental health of hospital and healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 1:04.0 | Let's listen. |
| 1:05.0 | Johannes Trul and Svea Klosser, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:10.0 | Thank you for having us. |
| 1:11.4 | Sure, happy to be here. |
| 1:12.9 | Let me start with you, Johannes. |
| 1:14.9 | You and Svea and a whole team of folks |
| 1:18.0 | from the Center for Health Security |
| 1:19.2 | did some surveys and interviews |
| 1:21.8 | with hospital and health care workers |
| 1:23.6 | about life during the COVID pandemic. |
| 1:26.6 | And I'm curious, really curious, what you found. |
| 1:29.6 | Yeah. So first of all, again, thank you for having us. It's great to be here and it's great |
| 1:33.9 | to talk about these findings, which I think are really important. So what we did is a combination |
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