Evidence map›Paper›PMID 38742826›Full record

ArticleJournal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society2024

Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 Restrictions on Nursing Home Residents', Families', and Staff's Perceptions of Bioethical Principles: A Qualitative Study.

Yimin Ge, Shengjia Xu, Alexander M Capron, Michelle S Keller, Jakub P Hlávka

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Yimin GeLeonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0998-4870
Shengjia XuLeonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Alexander M CapronGould School of Law, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9023-5767
Michelle S KellerDivision of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Jakub P HlávkaLeonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2766-390X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this study, we employed a pre-interview survey and conducted interviews with nursing home staff members and residents/family members to understand their perceptions of whether the COVID-19 restrictions fulfilled obligations to nursing home residents under various principles, including autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice, and privacy. We conducted 20 semi-structured interviews with staff members from 14 facilities, and 20 with residents and/or family members from 13 facilities. We used a qualitative descriptive study design and thematic analysis methodology to analyze the interviews. Findings from the pre-interview survey indicated that, compared to nursing home staff, residents and their families perceived lower adherence to bioethics principles during the pandemic. Qualitative analysis themes included specific restrictions, challenges, facility notifications, consequences, communication, and relationships between staff and residents/family members. Our study exposes the struggle to balance infection control with respecting bioethical principles in nursing homes, suggesting avenues for improving processes and policies during public health emergencies.

Indexed as

COVID-19FamilyNursing HomesQualitative ResearchAdultAgedAttitude of Health PersonnelBioethical IssuesFemaleHomes for the AgedHumansInfection ControlInterviews as TopicMaleMiddle AgedSARS-CoV-2bioethicsCOVID-19long-term services and supportsnursing homespolicyqualitative methods

Identifiers

PMID38742826
PMCPMC11490067

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.