Compassionate care during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There was a substantial documented call for healthcare professionals to provide compassionate care during the COVID-19 pandemic and significant criticism voiced when it was lacking. This study aimed to explore perspectives on compassionate care among healthcare professionals providing care during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study focuses on healthcare professionals who participated in a wide range of COVID-19 measures, including testing, quarantine, diagnosis, and care provision (patients with COVID-19 or patients with other illnesses and comorbid with COVID-19).

Methods

A qualitative design with an interpretative phenomenological analysis approach was used. Twenty frontline healthcare professionals (15 nurses and five physicians) who had worked in COVID-19 facilit

SUBMITTER: Su JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10938786 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature