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The lived experience of hotel isolation and quarantine at the Aotearoa New Zealand border for COVID-19: A qualitative descriptive study

Hotel-based Managed Isolation and Quarantine (MIQ) is a key public health intervention in Aotearoa New Zealand's (NZ) COVID-19 border control strategy for returning citizens and permanent residents. We aimed to investigate the experience of transiting through MIQ in NZ, to inform future refinem...

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Autores principales: Gray, Lesley, MacDonald, Carol, Puloka, Aivi, Bocock, Claudia, Gwyther, Ruth, Rushton, Ashleigh, Puloka, Viliami, Becker, Julia S, Kvalsvig, Amanda, Baker, Michael G.
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Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9764876/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36569446
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102779
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author Gray, Lesley
MacDonald, Carol
Puloka, Aivi
Bocock, Claudia
Gwyther, Ruth
Rushton, Ashleigh
Puloka, Viliami
Becker, Julia S
Kvalsvig, Amanda
Baker, Michael G.
author_facet Gray, Lesley
MacDonald, Carol
Puloka, Aivi
Bocock, Claudia
Gwyther, Ruth
Rushton, Ashleigh
Puloka, Viliami
Becker, Julia S
Kvalsvig, Amanda
Baker, Michael G.
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description Hotel-based Managed Isolation and Quarantine (MIQ) is a key public health intervention in Aotearoa New Zealand's (NZ) COVID-19 border control strategy for returning citizens and permanent residents. We aimed to investigate the experience of transiting through MIQ in NZ, to inform future refinements of this type of system. A qualitative thematic analysis method was utilised to explore experiences in depth with seventy-five individuals who had undergone MIQ in NZ between April 2020 and July 2021. Participants were interviewed by telephone or Zoom or completed an online qualitative questionnaire. Interviews were audio recorded, transcribed and coded; questionnaire responses were sorted and coded. All data were subjected to thematic analysis. Three main themes described the key elements of the participants' experience of MIQ that influenced their overall experiences: 1) The MIQ process, 2) MIQ Hotels, and 3) Individual experience. The variation in participants' overall experience of MIQ was strongly influenced by their perceptions of how well the MIQ process was managed (including communication, flexibility, and compliance with disease prevention and control measures); and the quality of the hotels they were allocated to (in particular hotel staff, meals and information). This valuable insight into the experience of individuals in NZ MIQ hotels can inform better planning, management and implementation of the MIQ process for NZ and adds to the literature of countries utilising such strategies to minimise the transmission of COVID-19, whilst protecting the wellbeing of those using the system.
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spelling pubmed-97648762022-12-21 The lived experience of hotel isolation and quarantine at the Aotearoa New Zealand border for COVID-19: A qualitative descriptive study Gray, Lesley MacDonald, Carol Puloka, Aivi Bocock, Claudia Gwyther, Ruth Rushton, Ashleigh Puloka, Viliami Becker, Julia S Kvalsvig, Amanda Baker, Michael G. Int J Disaster Risk Reduct Article Hotel-based Managed Isolation and Quarantine (MIQ) is a key public health intervention in Aotearoa New Zealand's (NZ) COVID-19 border control strategy for returning citizens and permanent residents. We aimed to investigate the experience of transiting through MIQ in NZ, to inform future refinements of this type of system. A qualitative thematic analysis method was utilised to explore experiences in depth with seventy-five individuals who had undergone MIQ in NZ between April 2020 and July 2021. Participants were interviewed by telephone or Zoom or completed an online qualitative questionnaire. Interviews were audio recorded, transcribed and coded; questionnaire responses were sorted and coded. All data were subjected to thematic analysis. Three main themes described the key elements of the participants' experience of MIQ that influenced their overall experiences: 1) The MIQ process, 2) MIQ Hotels, and 3) Individual experience. The variation in participants' overall experience of MIQ was strongly influenced by their perceptions of how well the MIQ process was managed (including communication, flexibility, and compliance with disease prevention and control measures); and the quality of the hotels they were allocated to (in particular hotel staff, meals and information). This valuable insight into the experience of individuals in NZ MIQ hotels can inform better planning, management and implementation of the MIQ process for NZ and adds to the literature of countries utilising such strategies to minimise the transmission of COVID-19, whilst protecting the wellbeing of those using the system. Elsevier Ltd. 2022-02-15 2022-01-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9764876/ /pubmed/36569446 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102779 Text en © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. 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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MacDonald, Carol
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Becker, Julia S
Kvalsvig, Amanda
Baker, Michael G.
The lived experience of hotel isolation and quarantine at the Aotearoa New Zealand border for COVID-19: A qualitative descriptive study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9764876/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36569446
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102779
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