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Intended, Unintended, Unanticipated? Consequences of Social Distancing Measures for Nursing Home Residents During the Covid-19 Pandemic
During the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Norwegian health authorities introduced social distancing measures in nursing homes. The aim was to protect vulnerable residents from contracting the potentially deadly infection. Drawing on individual interviews with nursing home managers and physicians...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10227487/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37261277 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23333936231176204 |
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author | Tingvold, Laila Moholt, Jill-Marit Førland, Oddvar Jacobsen, Frode Fadnes Tranvåg, Oscar |
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description | During the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Norwegian health authorities introduced social distancing measures in nursing homes. The aim was to protect vulnerable residents from contracting the potentially deadly infection. Drawing on individual interviews with nursing home managers and physicians, and focus groups with nursing staff, we explore and describe consequences the social distancing measures had on nursing home residents’ health and wellbeing. The analysis indicates that most residents became socially deprived, while some became calmer during the nursing home lockdown. Nursing home staff, physicians and managers witnessed that residents’ health and functional capacity declined when services to maintain health, such as physiotherapy, were put on hold. In conclusion, we argue that although Norwegian health authorities managed to keep the infection rates low in nursing homes, this came at a high price for the residents however, as the social distancing measures also negatively impacted their health and wellbeing. |
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spelling | pubmed-102274872023-05-30 Intended, Unintended, Unanticipated? Consequences of Social Distancing Measures for Nursing Home Residents During the Covid-19 Pandemic Tingvold, Laila Moholt, Jill-Marit Førland, Oddvar Jacobsen, Frode Fadnes Tranvåg, Oscar Glob Qual Nurs Res Single-Method Research Article During the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Norwegian health authorities introduced social distancing measures in nursing homes. The aim was to protect vulnerable residents from contracting the potentially deadly infection. Drawing on individual interviews with nursing home managers and physicians, and focus groups with nursing staff, we explore and describe consequences the social distancing measures had on nursing home residents’ health and wellbeing. The analysis indicates that most residents became socially deprived, while some became calmer during the nursing home lockdown. Nursing home staff, physicians and managers witnessed that residents’ health and functional capacity declined when services to maintain health, such as physiotherapy, were put on hold. In conclusion, we argue that although Norwegian health authorities managed to keep the infection rates low in nursing homes, this came at a high price for the residents however, as the social distancing measures also negatively impacted their health and wellbeing. SAGE Publications 2023-05-28 /pmc/articles/PMC10227487/ /pubmed/37261277 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23333936231176204 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Single-Method Research Article Tingvold, Laila Moholt, Jill-Marit Førland, Oddvar Jacobsen, Frode Fadnes Tranvåg, Oscar Intended, Unintended, Unanticipated? Consequences of Social Distancing Measures for Nursing Home Residents During the Covid-19 Pandemic |
title | Intended, Unintended, Unanticipated? Consequences of Social Distancing Measures for Nursing Home Residents During the Covid-19 Pandemic |
title_full | Intended, Unintended, Unanticipated? Consequences of Social Distancing Measures for Nursing Home Residents During the Covid-19 Pandemic |
title_fullStr | Intended, Unintended, Unanticipated? Consequences of Social Distancing Measures for Nursing Home Residents During the Covid-19 Pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Intended, Unintended, Unanticipated? Consequences of Social Distancing Measures for Nursing Home Residents During the Covid-19 Pandemic |
title_short | Intended, Unintended, Unanticipated? Consequences of Social Distancing Measures for Nursing Home Residents During the Covid-19 Pandemic |
title_sort | intended, unintended, unanticipated? consequences of social distancing measures for nursing home residents during the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Single-Method Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10227487/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37261277 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23333936231176204 |
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