Publications by authors named "Susan N Giannitrapani"

Background: Employee Occupational Health ('occupational health') clinicians have expansive perspectives of the experience of healthcare personnel. Integrating mental health into the purview of occupational health is a newer approach that could combat historical limitations of healthcare personnel mental health programmes, which have been isolated and underused.

Objective: We aimed to document innovation and opportunities for supporting healthcare personnel mental health through occupational health clinicians.

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Background: In August 2021, up to 30% of Americans were uncertain about taking the COVID-19 vaccine, including some healthcare personnel (HCP).

Objective: Our objective was to identify barriers and facilitators of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) HCP vaccination program.

Design: We conducted key informant interviews with employee occupational health (EOH) providers, using snowball recruitment.

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