Moral distress in medicine: An ethical analysis.
J Health Psychol
; 27(8): 1971-1990, 2022 07.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1211678
ABSTRACT
Moral distress is a negative emotional response that occurs when physicians know the morally correct action but are prevented from taking it because of internal or external constraints. Moral distress undermines a physician's ethical integrity, leading to anger, poor job satisfaction, reduced quality of care and burnout. Scarce literature exists on the ethical aspects of moral distress in medicine. We conducted an ethical analysis of moral distress as experienced by physicians and analysed it from the literature using two predominant ethical theories principlism and care ethics. Finally, we consider the emergence of moral distress in medicine during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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International databases
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Attitude of Health Personnel
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Observational study
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Qualitative research
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Randomized controlled trials
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
J Health Psychol
Journal subject:
Psychology
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
13591053211014586
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