Background: Healthcare workers employed in hospital settings face significant occupational stressors that place them at elevated risk for a range of mental health outcomes, including burnout, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue, and moral injury. These challenges carry serious consequences for healthcare worker well-being, patient safety, care quality, and workforce retention. Despite growing recognition of this crisis and recent federal legislation allowing funding to address healthcare worker mental health, no comprehensive synthesis exists identifying which psychosocial interventions are most effective for this population in the United States. Objectives: This systematic review and meta-analysis aims to examine the effects of psychosocial interventions on mental health outcomes among healthcare workers employed in United States hospital settings, to identify moderators or intervention effectiveness, and to provide actionable evidence to inform program development, resource allocation, and policy implementation. Methods: statistic, interpreted alongside 95% prediction intervals and visual inspection of forest plots. Moderator analyses will explore intervention type, healthcare worker role, treatment duration, delivery format, and facilitator type as potential sources of heterogeneity.
Blumhagen et al. (Mon,) studied this question.