Table 3 Longitudinal Follow-Up of Moral Injury Events Scale (MIES) Among Healthcare Workers
From: Psychiatric symptoms and moral injury among US healthcare workers in the COVID-19 era
Items | Agreement | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Baseline n = 350 | Day 30 n = 280 | Day 90 n = 267 | ||
n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | ||
Transgression by others | ||||
 1 | I saw things that were morally wrong | 192 (55) | 138 (49) | 135 (51) |
 2 | I am troubled by having witnessed others’ immoral acts | 171 (49) | 125 (45) | 142 (46) |
Self-transgression | ||||
 3 | I acted in ways that violated my own moral code or values | 66 (19) | 51 (18) | 52 (20) |
 4 | I am troubled by having acted in ways that violated my own morals or values | 68 (19) | 53 (19) | 45 (17) |
 5 | I violated my own morals by failing to do something that I felt I should have done | 71 (20) | 60 (21) | 57 (22) |
 6 | I am troubled because I violated my morals by failing to do something that I felt I should have done | 72 (21) | 56 (20) | 46 (17) |
Betrayal | ||||
 7 | I feel betrayed by leaders who I once trusted | 157 (45) | 130 (46) | 142 (46) |
 8 | I feel betrayed by coworkers who I once trusted | 111 (32) | 78 (28) | 77 (29) |
 9 | I feel betrayed by others outside the healthcare system who I once trusted | 152 (43) | 114 (41) | 101 (38) |
MIES total scores | 17.8 ± 6.5 | 17.2 ± 6.8 | 17.0 ± 6.6 | |