The Impact of COVID-19 on Nursing Homes: Study Design and Population Description.

ABSTRACT: Nursing homes for the elderly in Spain have experienced high rates of infection and mortality from COVID-19, although rates have varied from one region to another. Madrid is the region where most institutionalized older adults have died from the coronavirus. However, there is little known about the psychosocial and environmental factors involved in the high incidence of COVID-19 among the institutionalised population in this region. This article describes the protocol of a study on nursing homes during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in the Autonomous Community of Madrid (hereafter: Region of Madrid or Madrid Region) and provides information on the study design, measures used, and characteristics of the population studied. A questionnaire about life in nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic wa

SUBMITTER: Rodriguez-Rodriguez V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9779101 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature