The health and coping strategies of nursing home residents and their relatives during the COVID-19 pandemic

The health and coping strategies of nursing home residents and their relatives during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods study protocol

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ISRCTN

Registry ID

ISRCTN12345167

Enrollment

372

Registered

2021-10-14

Start date

2021-04-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2025-01-06

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Conditions

Physical and mental health of residents of nursing homes residents and their relatives during the COVID-19 pandemic Not Applicable

Interventions

This study is based on a concurrent mixed design (QUAN/Qual). Quantitative data will be collected through questionnaires and qualitative data will be collected through semi-structured interviews for r

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Nursing home residents: 1. Over 65 years old 2. Able to discern and speak and understand French Relatives: 1. Able to discern and speak and understand French Healthcare professionals: 1. Working on the unit for more than 3 months 2. Have a caring relationship with the residents and the family member

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Residents: 1. The presence of major irreversible neurocognitive disorders Relatives: 1. There are no exclusion criteria Healthcare professionals: 1. Temporary worker or a student

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
There is a single timepoint for both quantitative and qualitative data collection (from April 2021 to February 2022) Level of symptom intensity reported by residents and relatives using the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12, Likert scoring)	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
There is a single timepoint for both quantitative and qualitative data collection (from April 2021 to February 2022): Quantitative: 1. Levels of psychophysiological activation intensity, reviviscence, and avoidance reported by the residents and the relatives using the Impact of Event Scale-6 (IES-6, Likert scoring) 2. Frequency of use of the 14 types of coping strategies by APs and relatives measured using the Brief-Cope questionnaire (Likert scoring) 3. Level of perceived stress reported by APs and relatives measured using the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS, Likert scoring) 4. Level of intensity of post-traumatic growth reported by residents and relatives measured using the short form of the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI-SF, Likert scoring) 5. Level of quality of life reported by relatives using the World Health Organization Quality of Life Brief Version (WHOQOL-BREF, Likert scoring) 6. Level of quality of life reported by residents using the World Health Organization Quality of Life instrument - Older Adults (WHOQOL-OLD, Likert scoring) Qualitative: 1. Stressors perceived by residents and relatives collected from interviews using thematic analysis 2. Stressors of residents and their relatives as perceived by health care professionals collected from focus groups using thematic analysis 3. An understanding of the phenomenon under study, i.e., the process of adaptation to stressors resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic by residents and their relatives, will be formulated by integration of the qualitative and quantitative results (mixed methods analyses)	—

Measure

Time frame

There is a single timepoint for both quantitative and qualitative data collection (from April 2021 to February 2022): Quantitative: 1. Levels of psychophysiological activation intensity, reviviscence, and avoidance reported by the residents and the relatives using the Impact of Event Scale-6 (IES-6, Likert scoring) 2. Frequency of use of the 14 types of coping strategies by APs and relatives measured using the Brief-Cope questionnaire (Likert scoring) 3. Level of perceived stress reported by APs and relatives measured using the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS, Likert scoring) 4. Level of intensity of post-traumatic growth reported by residents and relatives measured using the short form of the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI-SF, Likert scoring) 5. Level of quality of life reported by relatives using the World Health Organization Quality of Life Brief Version (WHOQOL-BREF, Likert scoring) 6. Level of quality of life reported by residents using the World Health Organization Quality of Life instrument - Older Adults (WHOQOL-OLD, Likert scoring) Qualitative: 1. Stressors perceived by residents and relatives collected from interviews using thematic analysis 2. Stressors of residents and their relatives as perceived by health care professionals collected from focus groups using thematic analysis 3. An understanding of the phenomenon under study, i.e., the process of adaptation to stressors resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic by residents and their relatives, will be formulated by integration of the qualitative and quantitative results (mixed methods analyses)

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Countries

Switzerland

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 12, 2026