Bridson, Tahnee L., Jenkins, Kym, Allen, Kieran G., and McDermott, Brett M. (2021) PPE for your mind: a peer support initiative for health care workers. Medical Journal of Australia, 214 (1). pp. 8-11.

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[Extract] The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has placed the health care workforce under an unprecedented level of stress. No area of the health workforce is immune to COVID-19-related changes to usual work practices. The impact of this acute stress has occurred in the context of a health care profession that was already struggling with major work-related challenges including anxiety, depression, secondary trauma, compassion fatigue and burnout. Importantly, these issues may have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic due to the direct consequences of health care workers being infected, and the indirect consequences of the economic impact on their families and friends, the rigours of lockdown and the adverse effects on health and wellbeing felt across all aspects of society.

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