Primary care occupational, physical, and respiratory therapy role adaptation in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Occupational, physical and respiratory therapists are relatively new to primary care settings, and thus their roles are still emerging. The COVID-19 pandemic was a time of abrupt changes in professional roles. Professional role adaptations are integral to the ability of health care teams to respond to day-to-day care delivery challenges, such as the current physician and nurse shortage, as well as disaster situations. This study explored the role adaptation of occupational, physical, and respiratory therapists in Canadian primary care settings throughout the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as barriers and facilitators to adaptation.

Methods

This longitudinal interpretative descriptive study purposively sampled primary care occupational, physical, and

SUBMITTER: Brown CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10759467 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature