Publications by authors named "A Baranowski"
Background: Health care workers (HCW) with post-COVID condition (PCC) are frequently reported to suffer from mental health impairment. Given HCW above-average risk for mental health, research is necessary and risk factors need to be assessed.
Aim: To compare mental health and health of German HCW with and without PCC and to identify associated psychological and social factors.
[Workplace-related stress experience and mental health of healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: risk and protective factors from the VOICE study].
Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz
November 2024
Background: Healthcare workers have an increased risk of depression and anxiety, and medical staff have faced a wide variety of challenges, especially during the COVID-19-pandemic. The aim of the VOICE study was to investigate risk and protective factors for workplace-related stress experience and mental health.
Method: A multicentre, web-based and prospective survey (VOICE study) was initiated in the spring of 2020 by a network of five psychosomatic university clinics (Erlangen, Ulm, Bonn, Cologne and Dresden).
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Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic posed major challenges to the healthcare system worldwide and led to particular stress among healthcare workers. The aim of this analysis was to investigate the level of global mental stress of direct healthcare workers in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: In this prospective cross-sectional study with four measurement points (T1: 4-5/2020, T2:11/2020-1/2021, 5-7/2021, 2-5/2022), psychological distress symptoms were recorded in an online survey with the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-4) among hospital staff working in direct patient care (N = 5408 datasets).
Domestication can lead to significant changes in the growth and behavior of organisms. While the threat of predation is a strong selective force in the wild, the relaxation or removal of this threat in captive-rearing environments selects for reduced sensitivity to biotic stressors. Previous work has documented such changes in other taxa, but no work has been done on domestication-related losses of predation risk sensitivity in insects.
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