TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ang, Wei How Darryl
AU  - Lim, Zhi Qi Grace
AU  - Lau, Siew Tiang
AU  - Dong, Jie
AU  - Lau, Ying
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/1/31
TI  - Unpacking the Experiences of Health Care Professionals About the Web-Based Building Resilience At Work Program During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Framework Analysis
JO  - JMIR Med Educ
SP  - e49551
VL  - 10
KW  - resilience
KW  - intent to stay
KW  - employability
KW  - health care professionals
KW  - process evaluation
KW  - framework analysis
KW  - framework
KW  - stress
KW  - mental health disorder
KW  - prevention
KW  - training
KW  - qualitative study
KW  - web-based tool
KW  - tool
KW  - sustainability
AB  - Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a greater workload in the health care system. Therefore, health care professionals (HCPs) continue to experience high levels of stress, resulting in mental health disorders. From a preventive perspective, building resilience has been associated with reduced stress and mental health disorders and promotes HCPs’ intent to stay. Despite the benefits of resilience training, few studies provided an in-depth understanding of the contextual factors, implementation, and mechanisms of impact that influences the sustainability of resilience programs. Therefore, examining target users’ experiences of the resilience program is important. This will provide meaningful information to refine and improve future resilience programs. Objective: This qualitative study aims to explore HCPs’ experiences of participating in the web-based Building Resilience At Work (BRAW) program. In particular, this study aims to explore the contextual and implementational factors that would influence participants’ interaction and outcome from the program. Methods: A descriptive qualitative approach using individual semistructured Zoom interviews was conducted with participants of the web-based resilience program. A framework analysis was conducted, and it is guided by the process evaluation framework. Results: A total of 33 HCPs participated in this qualitative study. Three themes depicting participants’ experiences, interactions, and impacts from the BRAW program were elucidated from the framework analysis: learning from web-based tools, interacting with the BRAW program, and promoting participants’ workforce readiness. Conclusions: Findings show that a web-based asynchronous and self-paced resilience program is an acceptable and feasible approach for HCPs. The program also led to encouraging findings on participants’ resilience, intent to stay, and employability. However, continued refinements in the components of the web-based resilience program should be carried out to ensure the sustainability of this intervention. Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05130879; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05130879 
SN  - 2369-3762
UR  - https://mededu.jmir.org/2024/1/e49551
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2196/49551
UR  - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38294866
DO  - 10.2196/49551
ID  - info:doi/10.2196/49551
ER  -