How to support staff deploying on overseas humanitarian work: A qualitative analysis of responder views about the 2014/15 West African Ebola outbreak

Author(s)
Rubin, G. J., Harper, S., Williams, P. D., Öström, S., Bredbere, S., Amlôt, R. and Greenberg, N.
Date published
01 Nov 2016
Publisher
. European Journal of Psychotraumatology
Type
Articles
Keywords
Assessment & Analysis, Epidemics & pandemics, Health
Link
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27863536

BACKGROUND:

Responding to health crises overseas can be both rewarding and distressing for staff involved.

OBJECTIVE:

We interviewed UK staff involved in the 2014/15 Ebola response to identify experiences that positively or negatively affected them.