De-stigmatising self-care: impact of self-care webinar during COVID-19

ABSTRACT

To protect wellbeing of healthcare and caregiving workers during COVID-19, the University of Derby has initiated to offer a webinar focusing on self-care. This one-hour webinar has been well-taken by many healthcare and caregiving workers, and has been requested to be offered at various organisations such as the National Health Service trusts, the British Association of Social Workers, and the Derbyshire Voluntary Action. This commentary reports the outline of the webinar including how the participated healthcare and caregiving workers perceived self-care, and suggests that the current situation may help de-stigmatise self-care among these crucial workforces.

KEYWORDS:

• Self-care
• healthcare workers
• self-compassion
• COVID-19
• stigma

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).