Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on community-based brain injury associations across Canada: a cross-sectional survey study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic created new difficulties for people living with brain injury, their families, and caregivers while amplifying the challenges of community-based associations that support them. We aimed to understand the effects of the pandemic on clients who live with brain injury, as well as on the provision of community brain injury services/programs in Canada.

Methods

Online cross-sectional survey conducted in January 2022. Representatives of brain injury associations across Canada completed the 31 open- and closed-ended questions about meeting clients' needs, addressing public health guidelines, and sustaining the association. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (close-ended questions) and qualitative content analysis (open-ended questions).

SUBMITTER: Salazar AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10663341 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature