Almost 60 Percent of Intensive Care Staff Report “Good Wellbeing” Amid Pandemic: Study

Medical staff wearing full PPE treat a CCP virus patient on an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) ward at Frimley Park Hospital in Frimley, England on May 22, 2020. Steve Parsons/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

A study of healthcare staff working in Intensive Care Units has shown that 58.8 percent reported “good wellbeing,” despite facing potential challenges to their mental health amid the CCP virus pandemic.

The challenges faced by the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) staff ranged from long shifts, in some cases a lack of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment), and a “regular exposure to ethical dilemmas with the consequential risk of moral injury.”