Mental health and well‐being impacts of COVID‐19 on rural paramedics, police, community nurses and child protection workers.
Objective: To investigate the impact of COVID‐19 on the mental health and well‐being of rural paramedics, police, community nursing and child protection staff. Method: An online survey was distributed to investigate the sources of stress and support across individual, task and organisational domains...
| Publicado en: | Australian Journal of Rural Health Vol. 29; no. 5; pp. 753 - 768 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Oct2021
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