Pandemic impact on patients with advanced non-COVID-19 illness and their family carers receiving specialised palliative home care: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate the experiential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on patients with non-COVID, life-threatening disease and their family carers.

Design

An interpretative qualitative design informed by phenomenological hermeneutics and based on data from in-depth interviews, performed between June and September 2020.

Setting

Patients receiving specialised palliative home care and their family carers living in Sweden.

Participants

22 patients (male/female 11/11) and 17 carers (male/female 5/12) aged 50 years and older. All the patients received specialised palliative home care and most were diagnosed with cancer.

Inclusion criteria

aged 18 years or older, diagnosed with an incurable life-threatening, non-COVID disease, sufficient strength to partic

SUBMITTER: Nyblom S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9121113 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature