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Exhausted? 100,000 voices agree...
Emotional Exhaustion Among US Health Care Workers Before and During COVID-19 ja.ma/3DG7LWr via @JAMANetworkOpen part of @JAMANetwork
Want to do something about it? bit.ly/wellbduke
.@ValerieFoushee @senthomtillis @sentedbuddnc I urge you to fully fund cosponsor HR 7153/S 3679 to reauthorize the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act, which provides critical support and resources to address the mental health challenges that health workers face.
.@ValerieFoushee @senthomtillis @sentedbuddnc I urge you to fully fund and cosponsor HR 7153/S 3679 to reauthorize the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act, which provides critical support and resources to address the mental health challenges of health workers.
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In this @JAMANetworkOpen podcast, hear from Duke Psychiatry's Dr. Bryan Sexton about:
- The detriments of compromised #WellBeing
- A bite-sized online well-being intervention ("WELL-B")
- And the promising results of his recent WELL-B #RCT
ow.ly/y67c50Tvh4m
@DukeMedSchool
Bite-sized Intervention Boosts Health Worker Well-Being!
After just 8 days, big decrease in burnout!
Story: medpagetoday.com/hospitalbas…
Article:
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
Whew! Ok, what's next?
RCT: A 3-5h continuing education program (WELL-B) can help to improve well-being in health care workers, with >90% favorable ratings. ja.ma/3Tzr7DI
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RCT: A 3-5h continuing education program (WELL-B) can help to improve well-being in health care workers, with >90% favorable ratings. ja.ma/3Tzr7DI
Bite-sized well-being for the weary...
Grant funded, no cost, simple intervention.
Most folks ask us for something that will help them as well as their colleagues, well... here it is:
linkedin.com/posts/wellb_the…
6 of 6 well-being outcomes still better 1 year later!
If you're still in healthcare, you deserve a wellbeing easy button!
see:
Effectiveness of a bite-sized web-based intervention to improve healthcare worker wellbeing: RCT of WISER frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
#burnout #wellbeing
The Science of Simple Well-Being Essentials
WELL-B links:
enroll: bit.ly/wellbduke
flyer: lnkd.in/d8wPN-pq
2 min intro video: lnkd.in/dGkdFhtm
WELL-B Essentials 2023 is an engaging, practical, evidence-based series of well-being s…lnkd.in/dV2jVukg
4,394 Michiganders tried WELL-B, and the results are in! You can try also: bit.ly/wellbduke
2 min intro: youtu.be/mmZHDVNBCLA
3 burnout responses:
1) fix systems
2) help our suffering coworkers
3) 1&2: connect individuals with more of what is meaningful to them
It's hard: ja.ma/3rpeBIl
but there are options: bit.ly/wellbduke, hsq.dukehealth.org/tools/, jointcommissionjournal.com/a…
Already high before the pandemic, the alarming current rate (63%) and increase in physician burnout
"We cared about quality of patients' experience, building relationships with them"
nytimes.com/2022/09/29/healt… @oliverwhang21 w/ @JBryanSexton1 @JBryanSexton1 @MayoProceedings
Good science= dif groups use dif methods to find same result.
1:mayoclinicproceedings.org/ac…
and
2: ja.ma/3y2lDqr
found...
Physician Burnout Has Reached Distressing Levels, New Research Finds nytimes.com/2022/09/29/healt…
How much exhaustion is explained by WHO your coworkers are? 15-24%
Heaven/Hell is other people
Seinfeld: "People, they're the worst"
Social contagion of well-being
Emotional Exhaustion Before/During COVID-19 ja.ma/3xLnVtF via @JAMANetworkOpen part of @JAMANetwork
so if the well-being issue is local, to some extent the solutions will also need to be local.
hsq.dukehealth.org/tools/
Over 5,000 Michigan healthcare workers already participated in WELL-B, emotional exhaustion dropped from 70.3% to 49.2%! Funded by @HRSAgov
For Oct 11-13th enroll: bit.ly/wellbduke
learn more: youtu.be/7UUh0PefTos
#burnout
#exhaustion
Handling it... (carved a new one for my splitter)
...woodworking as meditation
Share a selfie that shows how you are taking care of your physical and mental health.
#DukeSelfCareSelfie
#SelfCareSeptember
Sign up for Well-being Essentials (free!):
bit.ly/wellbduke
Good info-graphic from NIHCM
37% of US lives in a mental health shortage area.
Trying group therapy and online programs can be helpful, and use your EAP!
To choose your own well-being adventure, see: hsq.dukehealth.org/tools/
Free Evidence-Rich Webinar!
The Hidden Truth About Emotional Exhaustion and COVID from 250K Healthcare Voices
here:bit.ly/burnoutcovid
