Health Service Providers (HSPs) are vulnerable, while providing critical health services in adversities such as the ongoing pandemic or disasters. During this pandemic, HSPs have been experiencing high work pressure, depression, anxiety, fear of infection, social isolation worsened by long duty hours, essential supplies’ constraints at health facilities. Such situations affect health care service delivery and also contribute to serious mental and physical strain of HSPs. Evidence shows that efficacious response to high work pressure and adversity can be produced efficiently through team work, rather than just an individual response. Team Resilience (TR) can thus be a promising approach to build capacity of the HSP teams to deal with high work pressure, stress, anxiety, and to enhance their wellbeing. TR comprises of processes whereby team members use their individual and collective resources to positively adapt when experiencing adversity and contributes to sustained team viability. Resilient teams have the capacity to endure, surmount, and bounce back from challenges in a manner that aids sustained performance and on-going work viability. Research indicates that TR can be developed through facilitated team working sessions and structured training programmes. Existing TR literature is focused on conceptual frameworks, studying effectiveness of TR trainings that are heterogeneous in purpose, content, and outcomes; however, very few interventions have been described which are specific to HSP teams. Hence, we propose to review and synthesize the existing evidence on TR training as an intervention at workplace to reduce stress, anxiety or depression and/or to enhance wellbeing of HSPs in LMICs. We propose to review and synthesize the existing evidence on TR training as an intervention at workplace to reduce stress, anxiety or depression and/or to enhance wellbeing of HSPs in LMICs.
What is the existing evidence available on team resilience training as an intervention in health care settings to reduce stress, anxiety and depression and enhance wellbeing of health care providers in LMICs?
What are, the team level enabling factors, team states and processes that develop or affect the team resilience? How are these associated with better wellbeing of HSPs and/or reduced stress, anxiety and depression?
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