
Digital Mental Health Tools for Healthcare Workers Providing COVID-19 Care
Personalized, digital therapy tools to support and sustain healthcare organizations and their frontline workers.
Project Overview
The Problem
With COVID-19, healthcare workers are on the frontlines of one of the greatest health challenges in generations.
In more normal times, healthcare workers already experience stress, anxiety, trauma, and depression from their jobs:
Before the pandemic, burnout and disability claims were 50 per cent higher than in other professions.
- More than one in four nurses screened positive for generalized anxiety disorder (26.1 per cent) and clinical burnout (29.3 per cent)
- 23 per cent of nurses screened positive for PTSD and 20.3% for panic disorder
- Over 40 per cent of Canadian physicians report that they are in the advanced stages of burnout
COVID-19 has added more pressures, including dealing with a highly infectious virus.
How We Are Solving It
Project Lead
Project Partners
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“In this time of crisis, we need to help our frontline workers with the incredible stress and risk of burnout of their profession during the pandemic, yet there is a chronic lack of access to mental healthcare professionals within the Canadian system. Our healthcare professionals are the foundation of a functional healthcare system, and we need to provide mental health tools that can be conveniently accessed during COVID and beyond for the unique needs of this critical profession.”
Read our Impact Story CEO, Starling Minds