Work situation and work environment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Follow-up study with 22 935 health care professionals in eight different occupations, various areas of activity and care facilities.

In order to learn and be able to make working life in health care sustainable for the future, more knowledge is needed about the extraordinary circumstances that staff are exposed to during the covid-19 pandemic and what this means and gives for effects. This interdisciplinary project is unique because a baseline survey with 22,935 employees in 8 occupational groups in health care in 2017, provides the opportunity to compare how their work situation and health was then with how it is during the covid-19 pandemic, and what the long-term effect will be in the future. The web survey contains questions about: well-being, diagnoses, stress, anxiety, working hours, pace of work, opportunity for recovery, work-life balance, physical exertion, leadership, work organization, systematic work environment work, social support, neglect, opportunity for skills development, and hygiene, the experience of infection risks, access to infection control equipment. In an open-ended question, participants are asked to write down their own story about the experience of their work situation during the covid-19 pandemic. The participants work in various clinical activities and at larger university hospitals in large cities, smaller rural hospitals, in primary care, etc. and the results can therefore be generalized and utilized for the benefit of many individuals and organizations.