Leveraging lived experience to prevent burnout among healthcare workers

为有精神健康问题或滥用酒精和药物的人提供治疗可能会给人带来情感负担，使员工特别容易因客户而倦怠。该提案旨在研究那些对客户面临的问题有亲身经历的员工是否能缓解这种形式的倦怠。本研究进一步探讨了这种缓冲效应是否由共情、归因和生活经验恢复知识的变化带来的。本研究的结果将为未来的研究提供知识基础，以开发减少倦怠的干预措施，从而提高医护人员的复原力、参与度和寿命，最终改善客户的结果。

Providing treatment for people with mental health problems or misuse of alcohol and drugs can be emotionally taxing, making staff particularly susceptible to client-related burnout. This proposal aims to examine whether staff who have lived-experience of the issues faced by their clients are buffered from this form of burnout. The proposal further examines whether this buffering effect is brought about by changes in empathy, attributions, and recovery knowledge from lived-experience. The outcomes of this research will provide the knowledge base to enable future research to develop interventions to reduce burnout, thereby boosting resilience, engagement, and longevity among healthcare staff – ultimately improving client outcomes.