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Depression and burnout plague nursing home employees

Groningen

This is shown by research by the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) among 1,669 employees of ten large organizations in the care of the elderly. Especially employees who had to care for residents with COVID-19 often suffer from symptoms of depression.

Employees believe that when providing care to corona patients, they have fewer opportunities to determine for themselves how they do their work. ‘The care for infected residents is very protocolized, which means that care providers have fewer opportunities to carry out the work in their own way’, says lead researcher Sarah Janus of the UMCG.

About half of the study participants turned more hours than usual during the first corona wave …

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