Listening and learning: a qualitative study of Scottish care home staff experiences of managing COVID-19 between March 2020-August 2022.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The serious outcomes of outbreaks of COVID-19 in care homes have been described internationally. The experiences of professionals working through outbreaks has received less attention, missing opportunities to acknowledge and learn lessons. Our aim was to explore the experiences of care home staff in Scotland of managing COVID-19 within their homes to help inform understanding and future practice.

Methods

From April to August 2022, 34 individual semi-structured interviews were conducted with care home staff working in homes which experienced an outbreak(s) of COVID-19. Reflexive thematic methods were used to analyse verbatim deidentified transcripts.

Findings

There was no singular experience of COVID-19 outbreaks within care homes. We identified four broad

SUBMITTER: Burton JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10485989 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature