Stress-management interventions may help individual healthcare workers for at least a year

Interventions aimed at reducing work-related stress for individual healthcare workers may lead to improvements in how people cope with stress up to a year later.Findings from a Cochrane review of the latest available evidence build on the conclusions of a previous review in 2015 that found low-quality evidence that interventions, such as cognitive behavioural training (CBT), mental and physical relaxation, were better than none.The researchers included 117 studies of the effects of different interventions on stress alleviation in the current review, of which 89 studies were new. These 89 studies were published between 2013 and 2022. A total of 11,119 healthcare workers worldwide were randomised to different interventions, and stress was assessed by questionnaires measuring stress symptoms in the short term (up to three months after an intervention ended), in the medium term (between three and 12 months) and long-term (follow-up after more than a year).The review from Cochrane, a collaboration of independent, international experts, looked at interventions at the level of the individual healthcare worker that focused attention eitheron the experience of stress, oraway from the experience of stress. Strategies for focusing attentionon the stress included CBT, and training on assertiveness, coping and communication skills. Interventions that focus attentionawayfrom the stress included relaxation, mindfulness meditation, exercise such as yoga and tai chi, massage, acupuncture, and...
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