Experiences of family caregivers of patients with COVID-19

BACKGROUND: Family caregivers of patients with COVID-19 face many challenges that affect their physical and mental health. AIM: The aim of the present study was to explore experiences of family caregivers of patients with COVID-19. METHODS: This phenomenological study was performed based on 13 famil...

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Autores principales: Rahimi, Tahereh, Dastyar, Neda, Rafati, Foozieh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8241402/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34187368
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12875-021-01489-7
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description BACKGROUND: Family caregivers of patients with COVID-19 face many challenges that affect their physical and mental health. AIM: The aim of the present study was to explore experiences of family caregivers of patients with COVID-19. METHODS: This phenomenological study was performed based on 13 family caregivers who had experience in home caring for patients with COVID-19. Data were collected through purposive sampling with in-depth semi-structured interviews. The Colaizzi's 7-step method was used to determine themes. The MAXQDA10 software was used to manage qualitative data analysis. RESULTS: Thirteen family caregivers participated. Five main themes describe family caregivers' experiences of caring for patients with COVID-19: nature of the disease; unmet needs; unpleasant physical, psychological, and social experiences; care facilitators and positive experiences. CONCLUSION: Information and financial support for COVID-19 should be provided to family caregivers. Also, community members should embrace patients and family caregivers and reinforce the positive experiences of caregivers. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12875-021-01489-7.
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spelling pubmed-82414022021-06-29 Experiences of family caregivers of patients with COVID-19 Rahimi, Tahereh Dastyar, Neda Rafati, Foozieh BMC Fam Pract Research BACKGROUND: Family caregivers of patients with COVID-19 face many challenges that affect their physical and mental health. AIM: The aim of the present study was to explore experiences of family caregivers of patients with COVID-19. METHODS: This phenomenological study was performed based on 13 family caregivers who had experience in home caring for patients with COVID-19. Data were collected through purposive sampling with in-depth semi-structured interviews. The Colaizzi's 7-step method was used to determine themes. The MAXQDA10 software was used to manage qualitative data analysis. RESULTS: Thirteen family caregivers participated. Five main themes describe family caregivers' experiences of caring for patients with COVID-19: nature of the disease; unmet needs; unpleasant physical, psychological, and social experiences; care facilitators and positive experiences. CONCLUSION: Information and financial support for COVID-19 should be provided to family caregivers. Also, community members should embrace patients and family caregivers and reinforce the positive experiences of caregivers. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12875-021-01489-7. BioMed Central 2021-06-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8241402/ /pubmed/34187368 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12875-021-01489-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8241402/
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