Improving mental health, wellbeing, and resilience of healthcare workers in Changing Environments

Project Information

APOLLO2028

Grant agreement ID: 101137144

DOI

10.3030/101137144

EC signature date 1 December 2023

Start date 1 January 2024

End date 31 December 2027

Funded under

• Health

Total cost

€ 5 626 338,75

EU contribution

€ 5 626 338,75

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITE DE MONTPELLIER
France

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - APOLLO2028 (Improving mental health, wellbeing, and resilience of healthcare workers in Changing Environments)

Reporting period: 2024-01-01 to 2025-06-30

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

The overall objective of the APOLLO2028 project is to provide health and care workers, organizations, and healthcare system funders and policymakers with research-backed innovative solutions to help improve mental health, well-being, and capacity to be more resilient to changing environments (especially daily pressures and extreme events) at the workplace.

The originality of the project is to consider resilience in health care in a holistic approach to build individual, team, and organizational capabilities to face the next extreme events and daily pressures.

Therefore, APOLLO2028 explores individual factors affecting resilience, group factors, and organizational factors, to develop a model involving all types of factors. This model will serve as a basis for the production of guidelines to be disseminated to health and care workers, their managers, as well as policymakers and health systems funders.

We will also develop an AI-based system to support the identification of stress factors and recommend actions. We will involve all the stakeholders in a co-design work to finalize our solutions. We will also review the cost-effectiveness of our solutions. The main impact of our project will be a reduction of stress factors at the workplace and an improvement in the resilience of all health and care workers.

We will ensure our solutions are disseminated to all EU member states and adapted to the specifics of each of their healthcare systems.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

The activities performed during the period are :

(1) Five literature reviews have been completed. Two have been submitted to the EU portal and three are in progress.

One article has been approved for publication in Health Policy.


(2) Four data collections are now in process in six european countries .

Data collection 1 first round - mental health survey: we received 503 responses

Data collection 2- physiological health survey: we have obtained 123 responses.

Data collection phases 3 and 4- organizational and team factors influencing well-being and resilience: we have completed 164/ 210 scheduled interviews.

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

The current findings address the following point:

The results of the mental health data collection indicate the potential value of emotional response to exposure to workplace stressors and its association with levels of well-being; and, in turn, allow for consideration of the robustness of prediction compared to existing tools such as the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC).

The future studies conducted in the APOLLO2028 will facilitate the development of a training program for leaders, evaluate the costs of action versus costs of inaction in mental health, and propose a tool for leaders to enhance resilience in the healthcare sector.

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