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Assessing the quality of support and discovering sources of resilience during COVID-19 measures in people with intellectual disabilities by professional carers
BACKGROUND: During COVID-19 measures face-to-face contact is limited and professional carers have to find other ways to support people with intellectual disabilities. COVID-19 measures can increase stress in people with intellectual disabilities, although some people may adapt to or grow from these...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9758889/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33578230 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2021.103889 |
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author | Scheffers, Femke Moonen, Xavier van Vugt, Eveline |
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description | BACKGROUND: During COVID-19 measures face-to-face contact is limited and professional carers have to find other ways to support people with intellectual disabilities. COVID-19 measures can increase stress in people with intellectual disabilities, although some people may adapt to or grow from these uncertain situations. Resilience is the process of effectively negotiating, adapting to, or managing significant sources of stress and trauma. The current study aims to provide professional carers with new insights into how they can support people with intellectual disabilities. METHOD: An online survey was shared through the social media and organizational newsletters of MEE ZHN (a non-governmental organization for people with disabilities). The resilience framework by Ungar (2019) was adapted to fit to people with intellectual disabilities during COVID-19 measures. Statistical analyses were performed in SPSS statistics version 26. RESULTS: Results show that professional carers applied diverse and distal methods to maintain contact with people with intellectual disabilities during the COVID-19 measures. Professional carers reported a significant decrease in the quality of contact with clients with intellectual disabilities, but overall high levels of resilience in the same clients. IMPLICATIONS: Online methods of communication are possibly insufficient for professionals to cover all needs of people with intellectual disabilities. During this pandemic professionals should be aware of stress but also of resilience in people with intellectual disabilities. |
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spelling | pubmed-97588892022-12-19 Assessing the quality of support and discovering sources of resilience during COVID-19 measures in people with intellectual disabilities by professional carers Scheffers, Femke Moonen, Xavier van Vugt, Eveline Res Dev Disabil Article BACKGROUND: During COVID-19 measures face-to-face contact is limited and professional carers have to find other ways to support people with intellectual disabilities. COVID-19 measures can increase stress in people with intellectual disabilities, although some people may adapt to or grow from these uncertain situations. Resilience is the process of effectively negotiating, adapting to, or managing significant sources of stress and trauma. The current study aims to provide professional carers with new insights into how they can support people with intellectual disabilities. METHOD: An online survey was shared through the social media and organizational newsletters of MEE ZHN (a non-governmental organization for people with disabilities). The resilience framework by Ungar (2019) was adapted to fit to people with intellectual disabilities during COVID-19 measures. Statistical analyses were performed in SPSS statistics version 26. RESULTS: Results show that professional carers applied diverse and distal methods to maintain contact with people with intellectual disabilities during the COVID-19 measures. Professional carers reported a significant decrease in the quality of contact with clients with intellectual disabilities, but overall high levels of resilience in the same clients. IMPLICATIONS: Online methods of communication are possibly insufficient for professionals to cover all needs of people with intellectual disabilities. During this pandemic professionals should be aware of stress but also of resilience in people with intellectual disabilities. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2021-04 2021-01-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9758889/ /pubmed/33578230 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2021.103889 Text en © 2021 The Author(s) 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. |
spellingShingle | Article Scheffers, Femke Moonen, Xavier van Vugt, Eveline Assessing the quality of support and discovering sources of resilience during COVID-19 measures in people with intellectual disabilities by professional carers |
title | Assessing the quality of support and discovering sources of resilience during COVID-19 measures in people with intellectual disabilities by professional carers |
title_full | Assessing the quality of support and discovering sources of resilience during COVID-19 measures in people with intellectual disabilities by professional carers |
title_fullStr | Assessing the quality of support and discovering sources of resilience during COVID-19 measures in people with intellectual disabilities by professional carers |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessing the quality of support and discovering sources of resilience during COVID-19 measures in people with intellectual disabilities by professional carers |
title_short | Assessing the quality of support and discovering sources of resilience during COVID-19 measures in people with intellectual disabilities by professional carers |
title_sort | assessing the quality of support and discovering sources of resilience during covid-19 measures in people with intellectual disabilities by professional carers |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9758889/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33578230 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2021.103889 |
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