Pflege in Zeiten von Corona: Ergebnisse einer deutschlandweiten                     Querschnittbefragung von ambulanten Pflegediensten und teilstationären                     Einrichtungen

Wolf‐Ostermann, Karin; Schmidt, A; Preuß, Benedikt; Heinze, Franziska; Seibert, Kathrin; Friedrich, Anna; Domhoff, Dominik; Stolle, Claudia; Rothgang, Heinz

doi:10.1024/1012-5302/a000761

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“…However, other studies point to explanations: for example, a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) was a main reason for outpatient caregivers being worried at the beginning of the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, which eventually caused a high stress perception [15,39,103]. This is also known from other research from the inpatient care setting [86,104,105], from the partially inpatient and partially outpatient care sector [101,106], and among healthcare workers [107]. Regarding the long survey period, the shortage had possibly already been overcome by the time of participation of many respondents.…”

Section: Pandemic-related Worries and Perceived Stressmentioning

confidence: 92%

The Role of Health Literacy among Outpatient Caregivers during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Rohwer

Mojtahedzadeh

Neumann

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Health literacy became an important competence during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite outpatient caregivers being a particularly vulnerable occupational group, their health literacy has hardly been examined yet, especially during the pandemic. Hence, this study aimed to explore this field and provide first empirical insights. Data were collected based on a cross-sectional online survey among 155 outpatient caregivers. In particular, health literacy (HLS-EU-Q16), diet and physical activity, pandemic-related worries, perceived information sufficiency and stress perception were examined. Descriptive and ordinal logistic regression analyses were run to test explorative assumptions. The majority of outpatient caregivers reported high values of health literacy (69% on a sufficient level). Although no significant associations between health literacy and health behaviours or perceived information sufficiency were found, perceived information sufficiency and perceived stress (OR = 3.194; 95% CI: 1.542–6.614), and pandemic-related worries (OR = 3.073; 95% CI: 1.471–6.421; OR = 4.243; 95% CI: 2.027–8.884) seem to be related. Therefore, dissemination of reliable information and resource-building measures to reduce worries may be important parameters for improving outpatient caregivers’ health. Our results provide first explorative insights, representing a starting point for further research. Considering outpatient caregivers’ mobile work setting, they need to be provided with adequate equipment and comprehensible information to ensure physically and mentally healthy working conditions.

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Section: Pandemic-related Worries and Perceived Stressmentioning

confidence: 92%

The Role of Health Literacy among Outpatient Caregivers during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Rohwer

Mojtahedzadeh

Neumann

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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“…Several studies have already been published analysing caregivers' job demands during the COVID-19 pandemic and their strain reactions, e.g., [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35]. However, these studies do not include the health behaviour of caregivers at all.…”

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The Health Behaviour of German Outpatient Caregivers in Relation to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed-Methods Study

Mojtahedzadeh

Neumann

Rohwer

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected outpatient caregivers in a particular way. While the German population becomes increasingly older, the number of people in need of care has also increased. The health and, thus, the health behaviour of employees in the outpatient care become relevant to maintain working capacity and performance in the long term. The aims of the study were (1) to examine the health behaviour and (2) to explore pandemic-related perceived change of health behaviour among outpatient caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a mixed-methods study, 15 problem-centred interviews and a web-based cross-sectional survey (N = 171) were conducted with outpatient caregivers working in Northern Germany. Interviewees reported partially poorer eating behaviour, higher coffee consumption, lower physical activity, skipping breaks more often and less sleep duration and quality during the pandemic. Some quantitative findings indicate the same tendencies. A majority of participants were smokers and reported higher stress perception due to the pandemic. Preventive behaviour, such as wearing PPE or hand hygiene, was increased among interviewees compared to the pre-pandemic period. Our findings indicate that the COVID-19 pandemic could negatively affect outpatient caregivers’ health behaviour, e.g., eating/drinking behaviour and physical activity. Therefore, employers in outpatient care should develop workplace health promotion measures to support their employees in conducting more health-promoting behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“…Further, many informal caregivers usually receive support from formal care providers, who have often had to close, reduce, or rearrange services since the outbreak of the pandemic ( 15 ). In Germany, for example, the provision of ambulant care has been affected by staff shortages ( 16 ). In addition, day care and night care centers have had to close ( 14 ), and rehabilitation centers and hospitals have sent their patients home in order to free capacity for expected COVID-19 patients ( 17 ).…”

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Informal Caregiving and Care Receiving Across Europe During the First Phase of the Pandemic

Bergmann

Wagner

2021

Front. Public Health

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Purpose: We analyzed the effects of COVID-19 as well as its accompanying epidemiological control measures on health-related outcomes (physical and mental health) and unmet care needs of both caregivers and care recipients across Europe and Israel by taking into account country differences.Methods: We applied comparisons of adjusted predictions, controlling for a large set of relevant respondent characteristics, to investigate changes in the physical and mental health of caregivers and care recipients due to COVID-19. Furthermore, multilevel regression models were used to analyze the effect of individual and contextual indicators on the probability of reporting difficulties in receiving care. For the analyses, we used data from 26 countries with 51,983 respondents over 50 years based on the eighth wave of the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), which had to be suspended in March 2020, and the SHARE Corona Survey fielded from June to August 2020.Results: During the first phase of the pandemic in spring/summer 2020, the frequency of providing personal care to parents increased in almost all European countries, while care to children, in turn, decreased. Parental caregivers who increased the frequency of providing personal care reported significantly more mental health strains, that is, feeling sad/depressed and anxious/nervous more often since the outbreak of the pandemic. With respect to receiving care, about one out of five care recipients had difficulty in obtaining adequate care from outside the household during the pandemic. The perception of unmet care needs was significantly associated with country differences regarding the duration of the stay-at-home orders. In contrast, the number of confirmed deaths did not have a significant effect on perceiving difficulties related to receiving care.Conclusions: Our findings show the extent of the burden to which caregivers and care recipients were exposed with respect to the unintended consequences of COVID-19-related epidemiological control measures. There is a great need within this population for interventions, which effectively reduce the burden as well as the symptoms of anxiety or depression for caregivers as well as care recipients. This should be recognized by (health) policymakers and social organizations.

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Pflege in Zeiten von Corona: Ergebnisse einer deutschlandweiten Querschnittbefragung von ambulanten Pflegediensten und teilstationären Einrichtungen

Cited by 34 publications

References 7 publications

The Role of Health Literacy among Outpatient Caregivers during the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Role of Health Literacy among Outpatient Caregivers during the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Health Behaviour of German Outpatient Caregivers in Relation to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed-Methods Study

The Impact of COVID-19 on Informal Caregiving and Care Receiving Across Europe During the First Phase of the Pandemic

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