Study: International healthcare workers’ experiences and perceptions of the 2022 multi-country mpox outbreak . Image Credit: Corona Borealis Studio / Shutterstock *Important notice: medRxiv publishes preliminary scientific reports that are not peer-reviewed and, therefore, should not be regarded as conclusive, guide clinical practice/health-related behavior, or treated as established information. A survey was recently conducted to understand the experiences and perceptions of multi-national healthcare workers during the recent mpox outbreaks worldwide.
The study is currently available on the medRxiv preprint* server. Background Healthcare workers play a significant role in health system preparedness and resilience during public health emergencies. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has taught the world how severely a pandemic can impact the health and wellbeing of healthcare workers.
As of 31 July 2024, 102,997 laboratory-confirmed mpox cases and 223 deaths have been reported globally across 121 WHO Member States. WHO Repoprting During a pandemic like COVID-19, frontline healthcare workers face major challenges in providing necessary service to people affected by a disease with a largely unknown clinical course and prognostic factors. They also have to cope with uncertainty, anxiety, stress, fear of disease contraction, a lack of personal protective equipment, and extended working hours.
Real-world studies have reported wide-ranging experiences of adversity, moral dist.