Practices and resilience of dieticians during the COVID-19 pandemic: a national survey in the United Arab Emirates.

Farah NajaHadia RadwanLeila Cheikh IsmailMona HashimWafaa Helmi RidaSalma Abu QiyasKaren Bou-KarroumMohamad Alameddine

Published in: Human resources for health (2021)

Despite the fairly high resilience among dieticians practicing in the UAE during the COVID-19 pandemic, the findings of this study highlighted a few challenges, mainly related to safe practice environment, support for online counseling, and maintaining work-life balance. Concerted efforts of policy and decision makers ought to develop targeted programs for dieticians to ensure their retention and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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