Group Home Staff Experiences With Work and Health in the COVID-19 Pandemic in Massachusetts.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Direct reports of the experiences of staff working in group homes for people with serious mental illness (SMI) and/or intellectual or developmental disabilities (ID/DD) are rarely reported. Hearing from workers about their experiences in the COVID-19 pandemic may inform future workforce and public policy.

Objective

To gather baseline data on worker experience with the perceived effects of COVID-19 on health and work in the pandemic prior to initiating an intervention to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and to measure differences in worker experience by gender, race, ethnicity, education, and resident population served (persons with SMI and/or IDD/DD).

Design, setting, and participants

This mixed-mode, cross-sectional survey study was conducted using online t

SUBMITTER: Donelan K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10082407 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature