COVID-19; digital technologies; mental health; professional healthcare practices; psychiatry; Communicable Disease Control; Europe/epidemiology; Humans; Pandemics/prevention & control; Physical Distancing; SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19/epidemiology; COVID-19/prevention & control; Europe; Pandemics; Pollution; Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health; Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Abstract :
[en] A The COVID-19 pandemic has had a considerable impact on the organization of psychiatric care. The present study examines how care professionals experienced this period and faced these new constraints weighing on their professional practices. Based on a qualitative research methodology, 13 group interviews with healthcare professionals working in psychiatric wards were conducted in five countries in western Europe. To complement this, 31 individual interviews were carried out in Belgium and France. Public health measures hindered certain therapeutic activities, jeopardized communication, and obliged healthcare professionals to modify and adapt their practices. Confronted with a transformation of their usual roles, healthcare professionals feared a deterioration in the quality of care. Impossible to continue in-person care practices, they resorted to online videoconferencing which went against their idea of care in which the encounter holds an essential place. The lockdown contradicted efforts to co-build care pathways toward readaptation, social reintegration, and recovery, thus reviving the perception of psychiatric hospitalization based on isolation.
Disciplines :
Public health, health care sciences & services Anthropology
Author, co-author :
Kane, Hélène ; EA 7505 Éducation, Ethique, Sante, Université François-Rabelais, 37020 Tours, France
Gourret Baumgart, Jade ; EA 7505 Éducation, Ethique, Sante, Université François-Rabelais, 37020 Tours, France
Rusch, Emmanuel; EA 7505 Éducation, Ethique, Sante, Université François-Rabelais, 37020 Tours, France
Absil, Gaëtan ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Institut de recherche en Sciences Sociales (IRSS)
Deloyer, Jocelyn; Centre Neuro Psychiatrique St. Martin (CNP St Martin), 5100 Namur, Belgium
El-Hage, Wissam ; CIC 1415, U 1253 iBrain, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire (CHRU), 37000 Tours, France
Marazziti, Donatella ; Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Section of Psychiatry, University of Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy ; UniCamillus, Saint Camillus International University of Health and Medical Sciences, 00131 Roma, Italy
Pozza, Andrea; Department of Medical, Surgical and Neuroscience Sciences, University of Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy
Thome, Johannes ; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Centre Rostock, 18147 Rostock, Germany
Tucha, Oliver; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Centre Rostock, 18147 Rostock, Germany
Verwaest, Wim; Centre Hospitalier Neuro-Psychiatrique, 9012 Ettelbruck, Luxembourg
Fond-Harmant, Laurence ; Agence de Coopération Scientifique Europe-Afrique (ASCAE), Grand Duché de Luxembourg, 2010 Luxembourg, Luxembourg ; LEPS, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, UR 3412, 93430 Villetaneuse, France
Denis, Frédéric; EA 7505 Éducation, Ethique, Sante, Université François-Rabelais, 37020 Tours, France
CNRS - French National Centre for Scientific Research [FR] Region Centre-Val de Loire [FR]
Funding text :
Funding: This research was funded by the French National Research Agency (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) and the Region Centre-Val de Loire, France. The funders had and will not have a role in the study design, data collection analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.This work is based on a qualitative research methodology using in-depth group and individual interviews. These interviews were carried out within the PsyGipo2C research project financed by the French National Research Agency and the Centre Val de Loire Region. The PsyGipo2C project takes a particular interest in the impact of COVID-19 on mental health and psychiatry professionals in Europe. Our research protocol received the approval of the ethics council of each of the partner countries in this study: Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, and Luxembourg.
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