Strategies and Interventions for Supporting the Holistic Well-Being of Clinicians and Nurses
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Healthcare Organizations, Systems, and Providers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 21 October 2026 | Viewed by 3098
Special Issue Editors
Interests: elderly and dementia; Alzheimer disease; chronical disease; well-being; quality of life; spirituality; mindfulness; burnout and mobbing
Interests: clinical and health psychology; validation studies; mental health; delirium
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Interests: nursing; nursing education; mental health; emotional competence
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Healthcare workers are at risk of mental health illnesses, such as burnout, stress, and depression, due to a variety of stress factors in the workplace, including long working hours, shift work, workplace violence, and a lack of social support at work, among other things. This may lead to adverse outcomes, limited not just to an individual level, but which can also affect an organization’s productivity and the quality of care.
In view of the persistent occupational stressors and the many challenges involved in providing healthcare, attention to the well-being of these workers has increased. Well-being is a complex and multifaceted construct that can be described as optimal human experience and psychological functioning, involving subjective experiences and objective conditions that reflect physical and psychosocial wellness.
Over the past few decades, research evidence has supported a relationship between greater well-being and better overall physical and mental health outcomes in healthcare workers, which reinforces the need to define and implement strategies and interventions to improve well-being.
This Special Issue aims to offer the most current evidence that has been developed in this area, with special interest in original research articles and reviews. A range of methodologies, including quantitative, qualitative, and mixed, are welcome.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Clinicians’ and nurses’ well-being;
- Well-being, physical, and mental health of healthcare workers;
- Psychological interventions;
- Mindfulness-based approaches;
- Workplace-based organizational interventions;
- Emotional regulation and mental health;
- Other approaches to improve well-being.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Sara Lima
Dr. Sonia Martins
Dr. Ana Isabel Carvalho Teixeira
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- well-being
- healthcare workers
- occupational stress
- mental health
- quality of life
- mindfulness-based and psychological interventions
- workplace-based organizational interventions
- mobbing
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