Megan Call's research while affiliated with University of Utah and other places

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Background Measurement is one of the critical ingredients to addressing the well-being of health care professionals. However, administering an organization-wide well-being survey can be challenging due to constraints like survey fatigue, financial limitations, and other system priorities. One way to address these issues is to embed well-being items...
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The mental health of healthcare workers (HCWs) is critical to their long-term well-being and future disaster preparedness. Goal 1 of this study was to identify rates of mental health problems experienced by HCWs. Goal 2 was to test a model of risk stemming from pandemic-related stressors and vulnerability factors. This cross-sectional study include...
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Professional well-being in health care is critical to the success of academic medical centers inpatient care, educating trainees, serving communities, and pursuing research missions. The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by SARS-COV-2, has stretched health care teams and individuals in unique ways, leading to high levels of persistent stress with concern f...
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Defining the Problem A growing body of evidence highlights the need for wellness programs to support health care professionals. Although much of the existing literature centers on practicing physicians and physician trainees, there is growing awareness that these challenges are not unique to physicians and affect all members of the health care team...

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... In addition to MD&I, previous studies found that HCW distress and psychiatric morbidity significantly increase during public health disasters and biological threats [34]. Workplace stressors, such as rapidly changing organizational policies and procedures, learning new treatment modalities, concern for patients, and bearing the weight of patients' distress, on top of personal stressors and immuno-compromised status, can create considerably psychological distress for HCWs [35,36]. It is imperative to develop evidence-based practices to prevent long-term psychological, emotional, occupational, and spiritual stressors of HCWs' MD&I. ...
... Among the 2553 documents, 46 potentially relevant articles were selected after title and abstract screening. On the full-text screening, fifteen non-clinical studies [25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39], four non-intervention studies [40][41][42][43], three generic studies [44][45][46], five studies not using MBMs [47][48][49][50][51], and one not presenting evaluation results [52] were excluded. Ultimately, this review included 18 studies [53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70] (Figure 1). ...
... This was originally viewed as a potential downside of using this survey tool. Yet, the burnout rate generated from one of these new items was consistent with a previous assessment of burnout among our providers, where we used a measure with well-established reliability and validity, and it was similar to the current national provider burnout rate [18,37]. This finding contributes to the national conversation of how burnout may be able to be inquired about and measured in a variety of ways, which gives more permission for innovation and flexibility when including well-being items in system-wide assessment. ...