Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 on Home Care Workers: A Qualitative Study.

IF 2.1 Q3 GERIATRICS & GERONTOLOGY

Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine Pub Date : 2024-01-19 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI:10.1177/23337214231222114

Christine FitzGerald, Eva Moynan, Catriona Lavelle, Cathal O'Neill, Katie Robinson, Pauline Boland, Pauline Meskell, Rose Galvin

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Abstract

This qualitative study aimed to gain insight into the impact of COVID-19 on Home Care Workers (HCWs). During COVID-19 HCWs provided a lifeline for home care clients to support older people remaining living in their own homes. With a high-risk client base, HCWs were one of the few (Health and Social Care Professional) HSCPs to continue providing home-based care throughout COVID-19. Despite these contributions HCWs provided for aging in place during COVID-19, a paucity of research exists in relation to the challenges and impact of the pandemic on HCWs. Three in-person focus groups were conducted (n = 23). Two main themes were produced guided by a Reflexive Thematic Analysis approach to enable the researchers to best represent the participants experiences: Challenges and concerns to the personal and private lives of HCWs and Navigating home-based complexities of HCWs workplace during COVID-19. health care challenges to minimize impact to HCWs issues to create a safe workplace for HCWs.

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探索 COVID-19 对家庭护理工作者的影响：定性研究。

这项定性研究旨在深入了解 COVID-19 对家庭护理工作者（HCWs）的影响。在 COVID-19 期间，家庭护理员为家庭护理客户提供了一条生命线，以支持老年人继续在自己家中生活。由于居家护理人员的客户群风险较高，因此他们是 COVID-19 期间少数几个继续提供居家护理服务的（健康与社会护理专业人员）HSCP 之一。尽管高危护理人员在 COVID-19 期间为居家养老做出了这些贡献，但有关大流行给高危护理人员带来的挑战和影响的研究却很少。我们进行了三次面对面的焦点小组讨论（n = 23）。在 "反思性主题分析 "方法的指导下，形成了两大主题，使研究人员能够最好地反映参与者的经历：在 COVID-19 期间，医护人员面临的挑战是如何将对医护人员的影响降至最低，从而为医护人员创造一个安全的工作场所。

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Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine Medicine-Geriatrics and Gerontology

CiteScore

2.90

自引率

3.70%

发文量

119

审稿时长

12 weeks

期刊介绍： Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine (GGM) is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed open access journal where scholars from a variety of disciplines present their work focusing on the psychological, behavioral, social, and biological aspects of aging, and public health services and research related to aging. The journal addresses a wide variety of topics related to health services research in gerontology and geriatrics. GGM seeks to be one of the world’s premier Open Access outlets for gerontological academic research. As such, GGM does not limit content due to page budgets or thematic significance. Papers will be subjected to rigorous peer review but will be selected solely on the basis of whether the research is sound and deserves publication. By virtue of not restricting papers to a narrow discipline, GGM facilitates the discovery of the connections between papers.