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HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE IN THE COMMUNITY
卷 30, 期 2, 页码 E370-E376出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/hsc.13204
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care homes; coronavirus; COVID-19; domiciliary care; fear of infection
This study explored the triggers of mental health problems among frontline healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research found that frontline health workers in private care homes and domiciliary care agencies face fears of infection, disparities between the National Health Service and social care, lack of guidance, unsafe hospital discharge, death and loss of professionals and residents, unreliable testing and delayed results, and shortage of staff.
COVID-19 was first reported in China and later spread across the world causing panic because there is no cure for it. The pandemic has adversely affected frontline health workers and patients, owing to poor preparedness. The study explored the triggers of mental health problems among frontline healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. An exploratory qualitative approach was utilised in the study. Forty individual semi-structured interviews were held with frontline healthcare workers. A thematic approach underpinned by some aspects of interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) and the Silences Framework (SF) was utilised. The research found that triggers of mental health problems among frontline health workers in private care homes and domiciliary care agencies are fear of infection and infecting others, lack of recognition/disparity between National Health Service (NHS) and social care, lack of guidance, unsafe hospital discharge, death and loss of professionals and residents, unreliable testing and delayed results and shortage of staff. It is important to support frontline workers in private care homes and domiciliary care agencies.
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