A study of healthcare staff working in Intensive Care Units has shown that 58.8 percent reported “good wellbeing,” despite facing potential challenges to their mental health amid the CCP virus pandemic. The challenges faced by the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) staff ranged from long shifts, in some cases a lack of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment), and a “regular exposure to ethical dilemmas with the consequential risk of moral injury.” These contingencies were combined with caring for dependent children and meeting other household responsibilities, researchers said. The study (pdf) published on Monday in the Occupational Medicine journal, was carried out by Kings College London. It surveyed 709 doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers in ICU’s at six English hospitals during June and July 2020. Positive Well-Being While it did not account for why almost 60 percent of the staff reported positively on their well-being amid the challenges they faced in ICU, …