The Impact Of Covid-19 on Homecare Workforce :  An Analytical Review

Kabak, Edison; Auparai, Nuriati Sarlota; Halotopo, Yoel

doi:10.23917/bik.v16i1.1511

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“…Under these circumstances, medical staf required support to feel safe when visiting clients in their homes, which was necessary to reduce anxiety and increase a sense of security among homecare staf. Previous studies reported higher levels of stress [11,12], physical, mental, and emotional work fatigue [13], depression, and anxiety and related factors [7,9,14] among homecare staf members during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, factors related to staf's sense of security have not been reported.…”

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A Project to Distribute Personal Protective Equipment to Homecare Agencies during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Its Association with the Sense of Security Improvement among Homecare Nurses/Helpers

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Nagamine

Yoshie

et al. 2023

Health & Social Care in the Community

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During the early period of COVID-19 pandemic, there was a serious shortage of personal protective equipments (PPEs), which caused difficulty in homecare agencies to make home visits to those (possible) positive COVID-19 cases. An organization with the help of several foundations started a special program to distribute PPEs to those agencies in which there was a possible case or those cases that had close contact with the positive cases. This study examined whether this voluntary activity contributed to increasing the sense of security in providing care among homecare workers. We conducted a survey with homecare agencies that received PPEs from the program between July 2020 and February 2021. The participants were agency managers who applied for PPEs. We conducted the survey twice, before and after receiving PPEs. In the questionnaire, we asked about the overall sense of security in providing care for those infected with COVID-19, reasons for applying for PPE, symptoms of the client or his/her family who caused the PPE request, and the agency’s and clients’ characteristics. We analyzed the data from 802 responses. Before PPE distribution, the sense of security was associated with the focal client having a cognitive impairment (β = −0.096), having cough (β = −0.088), fatigue (β = −0.085), or headache (β = −0.078). Agencies that did not visits those (possibly) positive cases (β = −0.123) had lower sense of security. Overall, the mean sense of security increased after receiving PPE. Factors that contributed to the increase in sense of security included a lower sense of security before the application (β = −0.529), visiting clients without dyspnoea (β = −0.109), the agency that did not visit positive cases before the application (β = −0.089), and with higher satisfaction with the days of PPEs received (β = 0.144). These results underline the benefit of the special PPsE distribution program.

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