The COVID-19 pandemic had a great impact on the health care system and the well-being of health care professionals, the effects of which are still felt today.
In one of two new studies investigating the consequences of these impacts, researchers examined how the pandemic triggered moral injury among health care workers, defined as “psychological distress following events where actions transgress moral beliefs/expectations.”
In a second study, researchers found a strikingly higher prevalence of PTSD in a physician population.
Health care workers reported high prevalence of moral