UK-REACH: United Kingdom Research Study into Ethnicity And COVID-19 outcomes in Healthcare workers

在全球范围内，包括卫生保健工作者在内的许多人正在因COVID-19而生病和死亡。我们有证据表明，少数民族患者进入重症监护并死于COVID-19的可能性更高。在卫生系统工作的少数民族可能也是如此。我们希望利用国家卫生保健组织持有的现有数据对此进行调查，以了解少数民族卫生保健工作者患COVID-19和死于COVID-19的风险是什么。我们亦会跟进一组少数族裔护理员超过12个月，观察他们的身心健康有何变化。此外，我们还将采访一小部分少数民族医护人员，以了解他们的工作风险有多大，以及他们如何为应对COVID-19而改变了自己的专业/社会行为。使用员工数据并将其链接到医疗保健数据可能是敏感的，因此我们将探索如何以可接受的方式做到这一点。最后，我们希望这项研究的结果对卫生保健工作者有用，因此我们有一个由主要国家组织组成的利益相关者小组来帮助我们进行研究，宣传研究结果并提出建议。

Globally many people, including healthcare workers (HCWs), are becoming ill and dying from COVID-19. We have evidence that people from ethnic minorities have a higher chance of going to intensive care and adying from COVID-19.This may also sbe the case for ethnic minorities working in the health system. We want to investigate this using existing data held by national healthcare organisations to understand what the risk of having, and dying from, COVID-19 is for ethnic minority HCWs. We will also follow a group of ethnic minority HCWs over 12 months to see what changes occur in their physical/mental health. In addition we will interview a smaller group of ethnic minority HCWs to understand how risky their jobs are, and how they have changed their professional/social behaviours in response to COVID-19. Using staff data and linking it to healthcare data may be sensitive and so we will explore how to do this in a way that is acceptable. Finally, we want the findings of this research to be useful for HCWs and so we have a stakeholder group of major national organisations to help us do the research, publicise the findings and make recommendations.