{"id":161971,"date":"2022-07-13T15:21:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T01:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=161971"},"modified":"2022-07-21T09:11:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T19:11:12","slug":"covid-19-impact-hawaii-healthcare-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/07\/13\/covid-19-impact-hawaii-healthcare-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19’s impact on Hawai\u02bbi healthcare workers highlighted"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 3<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

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Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> healthcare workers surveyed in 2020 were primarily concerned about contracting COVID-19 at work and transmitting it to their families, according to a recently published University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa public health study<\/a>. The survey was conducted between July and October 2020 by Anna D. Davide<\/strong> and Amelia R. Arechy<\/strong>, who earned their bachelor’s of arts degrees in public health in December 2020 and May 2021, respectively.<\/p>\n

“As essential workers on the front lines of a pandemic, healthcare workers are unable to shelter-in-place, and to treat patients, often cannot obey physical distancing guidelines, making them highly exposed and vulnerable to infection,” said Davide.<\/p>\n

According to national statistics<\/a>, 93% of health care workers were experiencing stress in 2020, and 76% of healthcare workers with children reported that they were worried about exposing their families to COVID-19.<\/p>\n

Davide added, “Despite this, we did not know about the impact of COVID-19 on the physical and emotional health of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> healthcare workers, or how healthcare workers in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> may have experienced the COVID-19 pandemic differently than those in less isolated geographic regions—this study worked to change that.”<\/p>\n

The study also highlighted several findings of how the pandemic has affected the local healthcare community:<\/p>\n