Leveraging lived experience to prevent burnout among healthcare workers

为有心理健康问题或滥用酒精和毒品的人提供治疗可能会使人情绪紧张，使工作人员特别容易受到与客户有关的倦怠。这项建议的目的是审查那些亲身经历其客户所面临的问题的工作人员是否受到这种形式的倦怠的缓冲。该提案进一步研究了这种缓冲效应是否是由移情，归因和恢复知识的变化带来的。这项研究的结果将提供知识基础，使未来的研究能够制定干预措施，以减少倦怠，从而提高医疗保健人员的弹性，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.