Perceived Wellness While Returning to Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic

This paper will review the current literature regarding perceived wellness and COVID-19 and how it relates to a return to work during the pandemic. CINAHL, Google Scholar and Academic Search Complete are searched, and 17 articles are found to be relevant to the topic of review. Most research on the subject focused on healthcare workers. A few articles are found that review wellness or stress during the pandemic related to Native Americans, music therapists, students, teachers and the general population (usually involving Italy, UK and China). Most research agrees that COVID-19 and the ensuing, lockdowns, deaths, social isolation, financial hardships, and alterations to normal life has caused an increase in the amount of stress and a decrease in perceived wellness. This increase in baseline stress contributes to wellness in the workplace. Workplace culture and interventions have been found to either worsen or mitigate these stressors. Tools used to measure wellness focused mainly on measuring stress and did not include comprehensive measurements of all areas of wellness. One article measured spiritual wellness and only one used a comprehensive wellness tool that measured 7 aspects of wellness (emotional, environmental, intellectual, occupational, physical, social, and spiritual). There is also a lack of longitudinal studies with regard to COVID-19. Only one article was longitudinal, though many articles pointed out the need for this type of research. Future research should include in increase in worker role groups other than healthcare workers, a more comprehensive tool to measure all aspects of wellness and longitudinal data to allow for comparative analysis

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