dc.contributor.author	Caudwell, Kerry
dc.coverage.spatial	United States	en_US
dc.coverage.temporal	2019-2022	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2022-11-29T17:20:16Z
dc.date.available	2022-11-29T17:20:16Z
dc.date.issued	2022-11
dc.identifier.other	96B9F05D-FBFC-189A-4507-59B83B3EC614	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10428/6290
dc.description.abstract	Understanding the occupational stressors affecting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) emergency responders to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is pivotal to understanding how to mitigate future employee stress and burnout during times of prolonged emergency response activations. CDC has experienced challenges with recruiting and retaining a volunteer workforce comprised of CDC employees due to multiple factors, including occupational stressors. This research fills a gap in the public health workforce literature by focusing on a much- overlooked responder population: federal public health emergency response employees. It also fills a gap in the public administration literature related to organizational (occupational) stress factors that lead to stress and burnout during times of prolonged emergency response and crisis. The purpose of this phenomenological research was to explore the lived experiences and perceptions of approximately 1,149 CDC COVID-19 emergency responders regarding the stress and burnout they experienced during their field deployments and Emergency Operations Center (EOC) assignments in support of the CDC’s level 1 emergency response activation that began in January 2020. Data were examined using existing, internal CDC debrief documents, which included first-hand information from responder interviews and their responses to open-ended exit survey questions from March 2020 to July 2021. These debrief documents included recurring themes regarding organizational and other factors affecting responders, including references to stress and burnout, but there has been no holistic review and analysis of what organizational stress factors were more likely to lead to stress and/or burnout — until now. Keywords: Occupational stressors, stress, burnout, emergency response, COVID-19, public health, challenge-hindrance model	en_US
dc.format.extent	1 electronic document and derivatives, 183 pages. 1781992 bytes.	en_US
dc.format.mimetype	text/txt	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.rights	This dissertation is protected by the Copyright Laws of the United States (Public Law 94-553, revised in 1976). Consistent with fair use as defined in the Copyright Laws, brief quotations from this material are allowed with proper acknowledgement. Use of the materials for financial gain with the author's expressed written permissions is not allowed.	en_US
dc.subject	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)	en_US
dc.subject	COVID-19 (Disease)--Government policy	en_US
dc.subject	COVID-19 (Disease)	en_US
dc.subject	Dissertations, Academic--United States	en_US
dc.subject	Emergency management	en_US
dc.subject	Job stress	en_US
dc.subject	Public administration	en_US
dc.subject	Public health	en_US
dc.subject	Public policy	en_US
dc.title	Occupational Stressors Affecting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s COVID-19 Emergency Responders [Permanent Embargo]	en_US
dc.type	Dissertation	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Department of Political Science of Valdosta State University	en_US
dc.description.advisor	Merwin, Gerald
dc.description.committee	Thomas, Blair
dc.description.committee	Sones, Matt
dc.description.degree	D.P.A.	en_US
dc.description.major	Public Administration	en_US