Cannon, Victoria;
(2024)
The experience of care home staff during COVID-19: A narrative analysis.
Doctoral thesis (D.Clin.Psy), UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, care home staff worked through unprecedented conditions, experiencing poorer mental health and moral injury. Emerging qualitative research has explored how care home staff coped and built resilience during the pandemic, but this has not yet been synthesized. Aim To synthesize the qualitative research on care home staff experiences of coping and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: MEDLINE, PsycINFO, Web of Science, CINHAL, Embase, Emcare and PTSDPubs were searched. The reference lists of final papers were also searched to identify any other relevant studies. A thematic synthesis was conducted. Results Twelve studies were included in the final thematic synthesis (N=314). The themes summarised how care home staff coped and built resilience during the pandemic. The themes identified were: (1) psychological (occupational identity; personality; cognitive strategies) (2) social (personal relationships; work relationships) and (3) practical (practical strategies at work; practical strategies at home). Conclusions: The results of this review found that care home staff coped and built resilience via psychological, social, and practical methods. Understanding these strategies could improve care home staff wellbeing in the future.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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| Qualification: | D.Clin.Psy |
| Title: | The experience of care home staff during COVID-19: A narrative analysis |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2022. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10186917 |
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