{"id":917,"date":"2023-06-26T16:20:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T20:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openbooks.macewan.ca\/researchincommunication\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=917"},"modified":"2023-06-26T16:20:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T20:20:40","slug":"statement-of-the-purpose","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/openbooks.macewan.ca\/researchincommunication\/chapter\/statement-of-the-purpose\/","title":{"raw":"Statement of the Purpose","rendered":"Statement of the Purpose"},"content":{"raw":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/h1>\r\n<h2><strong>Statement of the Purpose<\/strong><\/h2>\r\nMental health has been an ongoing issue in the restaurant industry, and the additional stress of working through the Covid-19 pandemic has made the situation more severe. Currently, there is a lack of understanding and research about the toll of Covid-19 on mental health\u2014especially as it concerns restaurant industry workers. Some studies have reported that up to 85% of restaurant employees suffer from depression and up to 73% suffer from anxiety (Kinsman, 2016, paras. 43\u201344). It is vital that the causes and effects of work-related stress in the restaurant industry are understood.\r\n\r\nThe topic of this research is mental health. More specifically, how has working at a restaurant during Covid-19 had distinguishing effects on individuals' mental health? Who is likely to be affected? Is there a specific position related to higher stress? And what is being done to help moderate the effects of stress?","rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2><strong>Statement of the Purpose<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Mental health has been an ongoing issue in the restaurant industry, and the additional stress of working through the Covid-19 pandemic has made the situation more severe. Currently, there is a lack of understanding and research about the toll of Covid-19 on mental health\u2014especially as it concerns restaurant industry workers. Some studies have reported that up to 85% of restaurant employees suffer from depression and up to 73% suffer from anxiety (Kinsman, 2016, paras. 43\u201344). It is vital that the causes and effects of work-related stress in the restaurant industry are understood.<\/p>\n<p>The topic of this research is mental health. More specifically, how has working at a restaurant during Covid-19 had distinguishing effects on individuals&#8217; mental health? Who is likely to be affected? Is there a specific position related to higher stress? And what is being done to help moderate the effects of stress?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"menu_order":4,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-917","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":911,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openbooks.macewan.ca\/researchincommunication\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openbooks.macewan.ca\/researchincommunication\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openbooks.macewan.ca\/researchincommunication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openbooks.macewan.ca\/researchincommunication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openbooks.macewan.ca\/researchincommunication\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"https:\/\/openbooks.macewan.ca\/researchincommunication\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/917\/revisions\/918"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/openbooks.macewan.ca\/researchincommunication\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/911"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/openbooks.macewan.ca\/researchincommunication\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/917\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openbooks.macewan.ca\/researchincommunication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openbooks.macewan.ca\/researchincommunication\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openbooks.macewan.ca\/researchincommunication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openbooks.macewan.ca\/researchincommunication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}