SWell – PCCS Partnership Project

In this project, we continued our SWell work to explore PCC staff’s experiences of wellbeing at a national level. Some of this work focused on how wellbeing had been challenged during the COVID-19 pandemic. This work was undertaken with the support of and in partnership with the Paediatric Critical Care Society (PCCS).

Project Summary

This project explored the experiences of different groups of staff. Some of the work focused in particular on the challenges to wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Three key projects were undertaken by BSc Psychology and MSc Health Psychology students at Aston University supervised by Dr Rachel Shaw and supported by the Birmingham SWell team and PCCS.

The 3 projects are:

PCC Consultants’ Challenges to Wellbeing during COVID-19

This work explored PCC consultants’ experiences of wellbeing and how their wellbeing was challenged during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project was conducted by Sumayyah Saeed, MSc Health Psychology. This project has been published in BMJ Open, click here to read the paper.

Newly Qualified PCC Nurses’ Challenges to Wellbeing during COVID-19

This project explored newly qualified nurses’ experiences of working in PCC and being redeployed to adult intensive care during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project was conducted by Jackson Pountney, MSc Health Psychology.

Exploring the Meanings of Wellbeing

This work explored the meanings of wellbeing with nurses and allied health professionals working in PCC. The project was undertaken by Esra Yeter, MSc Health Psychology and Harmeet Bhamra, BSc Psychology.

Here we explored meanings of wellbeing and challenges to wellbeing among different staff groups working in PCC during the COVID-19 pandemic.