Barriers to and Facilitators of Family Caregiving of Patients With COVID-19 Early in the Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In 2020, many family members were thrust into the role of caregiving for a relative with COVID-19 with little preparation, training, or understanding of the disease and its symptoms.

Objectives

To explore the barriers to and facilitators of caregiving experienced by family caregivers of patients with COVID-19 who had been in intensive care in the pandemic's earliest months.

Methods

In-depth qualitative interviews were conducted by web conference with 16 adults recovering at home after intubation for COVID-19 in an intensive care unit at a major academic medical center and their primary caregivers from March to August 2020 (N = 32). Thematic qualitative analysis was done using Watkins' rigorous and accelerated data reduction technique with MAXQDA software.

SUBMITTER: Leggett AN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11995669 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature