Understanding the role and deployment of volunteers within specialist palliative care services and organisations as they have adjusted to the COVID-19 pandemic: A multi-national EAPC volunteer taskforce survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Early indications were of a major decline in specialist palliative care volunteer numbers during COVID-19. It is important that ongoing deployment and role of volunteers is understood, given the dependence of many palliative care services on volunteers for quality care provision.

Aim

To understand the roles and deployment of volunteers in specialist palliative care services as they have adjusted to the impact of COVID-19.

Design

Observational multi-national study, using a cross-sectional online survey with closed and free-text option questions. Disseminated via social media, palliative care networks and key collaborators from May to July 2021.

Setting/participants

Any specialist palliative care setting in any country, including hospices, day hospices

SUBMITTER: Walshe C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9705505 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature