Josh Martin, Alice Rueda, Gyu Hee Lee, Vanessa K Tassone, Haley Park, Martin Ivanov, Benjamin C Darnell, Lindsay Beavers, Douglas M Campbell, Binh Nguyen, Andrei Torres, Hyejung Jung, Wendy Lou, Anthony Nazarov, Andrea Ashbaugh, Bill Kapralos, Brett Litz, Rakesh Jetly, Adam Dubrowski, Gillian Strudwick, Sridhar Krishnan, Venkat Bhat
BACKGROUND: Staffing and resource shortages, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, have increased stress levels among health care workers. Many health care workers have reported feeling unable to maintain the quality of care expected within their profession, which, at times, may lead to moral distress and moral injury. Currently, interventions for moral distress and moral injury are limited. OBJECTIVE: This study has the following aims: (1) to characterize and reduce stress and moral distress related to decision-making in morally complex situations using a virtual reality (VR) scenario and a didactic intervention; (2) to identify features contributing to mental health outcomes using wearable, physiological, and self-reported questionnaire data; and (3) to create a personal digital phenotype profile that characterizes stress and moral distress at the individual level...
May 6, 2024: JMIR Research Protocols