'We tried our best... it wasn't great': a qualitative study of clinician experiences on child psychiatry wards at the height of COVID-19.

ABSTRACT: Changing public health and hospital protocols during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic shaped the provision of inpatient mental health care. While a growing body of research explores the challenges of restrictions on adult psychiatric wards, the impact on clinical teams and epidemiological trends in youth mental health, no research has explored inpatient psychiatric hospital services for child and adolescent psychiatry during the pandemic. This study seeks to understand how clinicians in Canada working in child and adolescent mental health wards experienced caring for their patients while navigating pandemic hospital restrictions. Following a qualitative descriptive methodology and also drawing on institutional ethnography we generated data using two methods: 1) an online survey of clini

SUBMITTER: Kronick R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11622505 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature