Locked out during COVID-19 lockdown-an online survey of relatives of people with psychotic and bipolar disorders in Norway.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many relatives of people with psychotic and bipolar disorders experience a high caregiver burden normally. During the first COVID-19 lockdown, mental health services partly shut down in many countries. The impact on relatives is unknown.

Aims

Explore how relatives of people with psychotic and bipolar disorders experienced changes in treatment and service availability for their family member during the first COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in the spring of 2020, and to what extent they perceived information and support to be satisfactory. To help guide future contingency plans, we were also interested in what relatives would prioritize in the event of a future crisis.

Study setting

We distributed an anonymous Norwegian online survey inviting relatives of individu

SUBMITTER: Aminoff SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8841121 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature