Psychosocial Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Healthcare Professionals in Spain
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Authors should refer to the research results of other authors more widely. They should have an in-depth discussion. The article is interesting, correctly structured. It reads well. Therefore, I do not have too many comments on this text.
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Reviewer 2 Report
Psychosocial impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on healthcare professionals in Spain
The article offers a phenomena but does not offer any theoretical framework to explain it.
From this point of view, it has on the one hand a huge potential and on the other hand a gap.
To summarize the article strengths, I can claim that:
A. It shows that medical teams dealing with mental health are a vulnerable population as well, and unlike the multitude of populations that the research (and especially the care systems) follow - they also need attention.
B. It shows that among this population - there is an improvement over time, while copin and working.
My recommendation is this:
In order to approve the publication of the article, it would be appropriate that during it or especially at the end of it there should be a paragraph that raises theoretical possibilities for explaining or framing the phenomena present in it.
I will suggest this:
A. The phenomenon of the medical teams is a classic phenomenon of Misrecognition and Dis-Recognition of difficulties/pain/trauma
Thanks to the "Regime" or Emotional Management in which the monitoring and follow-up is for the patients and not for the therapists.
This is also the uniqueness of this article. Please read and rely on and quate this article:
Lebel, U., "'Second Class Loss': Political Culture as a Recovery Barrier? – Israeli Families of Terrorist Casualties and their Struggle for National Honors, Recognition and Belonging", Death Studies, 38(1), 2014, 9-19
Although the contexts of not recognizing the pain of communities are clarified in it is in a different context (differentiation of loss) you will easily "take it" to the case of patients versus therapists.
B. In the context of the explanation for the fact that the therapists' indicators improve over time - this can be explained by a number of suggestions related to the previous section (and can be left in the air for further research in your conclusion):
The fact that the issue of dealing with the covid has become a national or global issue and the medical teams have suddenly become very important and got much attention, means that they have suddenly gained recognition, meaning, sense making for their role. which causes a sense of meaning, motivation, and an increase in the levels of mental health as well.
For an article that teaches exactly that - how a community that gains a sense of meaning begins to function better (which translates into better mental health) that can be recalled and relied on see
:
Lebel, U., Ben-Hador, B. and Ben-Shalom, U., "Jewish Spiritualization as a 'Meaning Injection': an Ethnography of Rabbinic Seminary in the Israeli Military", in: Mayseless, O. and Russo-Netzer , P. (eds), 2021, Finding Meaning: An Existential Quest in Postmodern Israel, Oxford University Press, NY, pp. 355-375
This is an article that teaches how those who were sought (albeit in the army) for workshops that gave them the feeling that they were performing a more significant role - began to function better and their mental health and mental resilience was strengthened.
Those two targets (and strategies) will make the article a higher and more universal contribution.
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Round 2
Reviewer 2 Report
the revision in fine. the article can be published.
