The Mass Development of Wobble Rooms for Frontline Healthcare Staff in the NHS: The Politics of Space and Communities of Coping

新型冠状病毒疫情期间，医院的工作环境充满压力，因此为前线医护人员开发了健康空间和房间。这些空间通常被称为摇摆室，并提供一个处理和科普COVID-19期间工作压力的地方。摇摆室的使用比医院环境之外的许多人意识到的更重要。摇摆室的概念是在布拉德福德教学医院提出的，然后在整个英国和其他国家，如加拿大采用。社交媒体和报纸报道提高了人们对它们的认识，建立摆动室的医院数量大幅增加。此外，摇摆房的概念已被纳入《国家卫生服务人员计划》概述的劳动力健康和福利战略。这种空间鼓励工作人员之间建立非正式的关怀网络，也称为应对社区。这取决于空间的可用性。此外，政治和财政问题限制了医院为这些房间提供物理空间的能力，这限制了一线工人休息和福利设施的质量。目标和方法拟议的研究将调查工作人员的经验及其在2020-2021年期间开发摆动室的作用。这项研究将确定一线工作人员是否有机会发展应对社区。还将探讨与发展和继续提供摇摆室有关的政治和财政问题。将使用结构化访谈和案例研究。在第一阶段，将对样本NHS医院的主要联系人进行访谈，以评估摆动室的状况。这一阶段将有助于确定是否继续提供摇摆房，并将其纳入现有的健康程序，或停止。每组将选出三个病例进行进一步研究。在第二阶段，15个半结构化的采访，从每个案件将进行与工作人员，组织的福利流程和相关administrator.Relevant to practiceThis项目的经理将作出重要贡献，我们的社区的应对，安全空间和正式的福利规定NHS医院内的理解。因此，这些结果将特别与NHS医院的工作人员，管理人员和福利从业人员有关。 产出1.以从业人员为中心的传播。将在布拉德福德教学医院举办一个培训讲习班，讨论摇摆室对员工福利和物理空间组织的影响。在线研讨会和讲习班将组织为每个人参与竞选摆动室在全国医院。论文将在面向NHS的会议（如英国卫生服务研究，健康基金会和医疗保健管理研究所）。摇摆室倡议已经产生了相当多的社会媒体活动，这些社交网络将用于传播研究成果。学术传播论文将被写，目的是发表在高水平的同行评审期刊，如社会学，健康和疾病，和人类关系的研究结果。

The stressful working environment in hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic led to the development of wellbeing spaces and rooms for frontline health care workers. Such spaces are commonly termed wobble rooms and provide a place to process and cope with the stress of working during COVID-19. The use of wobble rooms plays a more significant role than many outside the hospital environment realise. The concept of a wobble room was introduced in Bradford Teaching Hospital and then adopted throughout the United Kingdom and in other countries, such as Canada. Social media and newspaper reports raised awareness of them, and the number of hospitals establishing wobble rooms grew significantly. Furthermore, the concept of wobble rooms has been included in the workforce health and wellbeing strategies outlined in the National Health Service (NHS) People Plan. Such spaces encourage informal caring networks, also termed communities of coping, to develop among staff. However, this depends on the availability of space. Additionally, political and financial issues restrict the ability of hospitals to provide the physical space for these rooms, which limits the quality of rest and wellbeing facilities for frontline workers. Aims and MethodologiesThe proposed research will investigate the experiences of staff and their role in the development of the wobble rooms in the period 2020-2021. The study will establish whether frontline staff had an opportunity to develop communities of coping. The political and financial issues concerning the development and continued provision of wobble rooms will also be explored. Structured interviews and case studies will be utilised. Key contacts from sample NHS hospitals will be interviewed in the first phase to assess the condition of wobble rooms. This phase will help determine whether the provision of wobble rooms is continued, and be integrated into existing wellbeing procedures, or discontinued. Three cases will be selected from each group for further study. In the second stage, fifteen semi-structured interviews from each case will be conducted with staff, managers of organisational wellbeing processes and relevant administrators.Relevant to practiceThis project will make an important contribution to our understanding of communities of coping, safe spaces and formal wellbeing provisions within NHS hospitals. As such, the outcomes will be particularly relevant to staff, administrators, and wellbeing practitioners in NHS hospitals. Outputs1. Practitioner-focussed dissemination.A training workshop on the implications of wobble rooms on staff wellbeing and the organisation of physical spaces will be developed and delivered at Bradford Teaching Hospital. Online seminars and workshops will be organised for everyone involved in campaigning for wobble rooms in hospitals nationwide. Papers will be presented at NHS practitioner-oriented conferences (e.g. Health Services Research UK, The Health Foundation and Institute for Healthcare Management). The wobble room initiative has generated considerable social media activity, and these social networks will be used to disseminate research findings.2. Academic disseminationThe thesis will be written and the aim is to publish findings from it in high-level peer review journals such as Sociology, Health and Illness, and Human Relations.