Status:

ongoing

Aims:

The aim of the current research project is to quantitatively and qualitatively investigate and evaluate the return-to-work processes of healthcare workers with nursing and care responsibilities with post-COVID. The following research questions will be investigated:

1. How do the occupational reintegration processes of post-COVID patients with nursing and care responsibilities in the healthcare sector proceed and how are they organised?
2. Which individual and contextual conditions promote or hinder the occupational reintegration process and the ability to work of post-COVID patients with nursing and care responsibilities in the healthcare sector?

By answering the research questions, individual protective, and risk factors as well as internal factors, such as working conditions and tasks, of post-COVID patients are to be identified. This will contribute to the development of secondary and tertiary preventive strategies in disease management that prevent long-term inability to work or occupational disability of healthcare workers with post-COVID.

Activities/Methods:

In the cohort study with three measurement points, 123 healthcare workers with nursing and care responsibilities will be interviewed retrospectively and prospectively about their return-to-work process. As part of the quantitative analysis, all participants were asked about the course of the disease, individual protective and risk factors and their ability to work at the three measurement points using partially digital, standardised assessments. In the qualitative part of the study, individual (contrasting) cases from the quantitative part will be selected according to specific criteria in order to shed light on how the processes of recovery and occupational reintegration of post-COVID patients are perceived individually within the framework of biographical analyses (mapping). Post-COVID patients with a positive reintegration process as well as post-COVID patients with a negative reintegration process will be selected and documented.

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