Nursing home staff perceptions of challenges and coping strategies during COVID-19 pandemic in China

BACKGROUND: First-line nursing staff are responsible for protecting residents, the most vulnerable population, from COVID-19 infections. They are at a high risk of being infected with COVID-19 and experience high levels of psychological distress. AIMS: To explore the challenges and coping strategies...

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Autores principales: Zhao, Si, Yin, Ping, Xiao, Lily Dongxia, Wu, Shuang, Li, Mengqi, Yang, Xiufen, Zhang, Dou, Liao, Lulu, Feng, Hui
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Special issue on Infectious Disease: From Prevention to Management
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8098060/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34091119
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gerinurse.2021.04.024
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author Zhao, Si
Yin, Ping
Xiao, Lily Dongxia
Wu, Shuang
Li, Mengqi
Yang, Xiufen
Zhang, Dou
Liao, Lulu
Feng, Hui
author_facet Zhao, Si
Yin, Ping
Xiao, Lily Dongxia
Wu, Shuang
Li, Mengqi
Yang, Xiufen
Zhang, Dou
Liao, Lulu
Feng, Hui
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description BACKGROUND: First-line nursing staff are responsible for protecting residents, the most vulnerable population, from COVID-19 infections. They are at a high risk of being infected with COVID-19 and experience high levels of psychological distress. AIMS: To explore the challenges and coping strategies perceived by nursing staff during the COVID-19 pandemic in China. METHODS: In April,2020, we conducted a qualitative study using in-depth semi-structured interviews with nursing staff. Participants were selected from seven nursing homes in three cities in Hunan Province, China. RESULTS: A total of 21 nursing staff participated in the study, including seven nurse managers, seven registered nurses and seven nursing assistants. Three main themes were identified. Different groups encountered different sources of stress and adopted various coping strategies to fulfil their responsibilities. CONCLUSIONS: Nursing home staff were underprepared for dealing with COVID-19-related challenges. Educational programs to improve the ability to deal with COVID-19 prevention and control are needed.
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spelling pubmed-80980602021-05-05 Nursing home staff perceptions of challenges and coping strategies during COVID-19 pandemic in China Zhao, Si Yin, Ping Xiao, Lily Dongxia Wu, Shuang Li, Mengqi Yang, Xiufen Zhang, Dou Liao, Lulu Feng, Hui Geriatr Nurs Special issue on Infectious Disease: From Prevention to Management BACKGROUND: First-line nursing staff are responsible for protecting residents, the most vulnerable population, from COVID-19 infections. They are at a high risk of being infected with COVID-19 and experience high levels of psychological distress. AIMS: To explore the challenges and coping strategies perceived by nursing staff during the COVID-19 pandemic in China. METHODS: In April,2020, we conducted a qualitative study using in-depth semi-structured interviews with nursing staff. Participants were selected from seven nursing homes in three cities in Hunan Province, China. RESULTS: A total of 21 nursing staff participated in the study, including seven nurse managers, seven registered nurses and seven nursing assistants. Three main themes were identified. Different groups encountered different sources of stress and adopted various coping strategies to fulfil their responsibilities. CONCLUSIONS: Nursing home staff were underprepared for dealing with COVID-19-related challenges. Educational programs to improve the ability to deal with COVID-19 prevention and control are needed. Elsevier Inc. 2021 2021-05-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8098060/ /pubmed/34091119 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gerinurse.2021.04.024 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Zhao, Si
Yin, Ping
Xiao, Lily Dongxia
Wu, Shuang
Li, Mengqi
Yang, Xiufen
Zhang, Dou
Liao, Lulu
Feng, Hui
Nursing home staff perceptions of challenges and coping strategies during COVID-19 pandemic in China
title Nursing home staff perceptions of challenges and coping strategies during COVID-19 pandemic in China
title_full Nursing home staff perceptions of challenges and coping strategies during COVID-19 pandemic in China
title_fullStr Nursing home staff perceptions of challenges and coping strategies during COVID-19 pandemic in China
title_full_unstemmed Nursing home staff perceptions of challenges and coping strategies during COVID-19 pandemic in China
title_short Nursing home staff perceptions of challenges and coping strategies during COVID-19 pandemic in China
title_sort nursing home staff perceptions of challenges and coping strategies during covid-19 pandemic in china
topic Special issue on Infectious Disease: From Prevention to Management
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8098060/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34091119
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gerinurse.2021.04.024
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