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COVID-19 and Physical Distancing Measures: Experience of Psychiatric Professionals in Europe

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  • Hélène Kane

    (EA 7505 Éducation, Ethique, Sante, Université François-Rabelais, 37020 Tours, France
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Jade Gourret Baumgart

    (EA 7505 Éducation, Ethique, Sante, Université François-Rabelais, 37020 Tours, France
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Emmanuel Rusch

    (EA 7505 Éducation, Ethique, Sante, Université François-Rabelais, 37020 Tours, France)

  • Gaëtan Absil

    (Haute École Libre Mosane, Département Social, Laboratoire D’anthropologie Sociale et Culturelle (LASC), Université de Liège, 4000 Liege, Belgium)

  • Jocelyn Deloyer

    (Centre Neuro Psychiatrique St. Martin (CNP St Martin), 5100 Namur, Belgium)

  • Wissam El-Hage

    (CIC 1415, U 1253 iBrain, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire (CHRU), 37000 Tours, France)

  • Donatella Marazziti

    (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)

  • Andrea Pozza

    (Department of Medical, Surgical and Neuroscience Sciences, University of Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy)

  • Johannes Thome

    (Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Centre Rostock, 18147 Rostock, Germany)

  • Oliver Tucha

    (Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Centre Rostock, 18147 Rostock, Germany)

  • Wim Verwaest

    (Centre Hospitalier Neuro-Psychiatrique, 9012 Ettelbruck, Luxembourg)

  • Laurence Fond-Harmant

    (Agence de Coopération Scientifique Europe-Afrique (ASCAE), Grand Duché de Luxembourg, 2010 Luxembourg, Luxembourg
    LEPS, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, UR 3412, 93430 Villetaneuse, France)

  • Frédéric Denis

    (EA 7505 Éducation, Ethique, Sante, Université François-Rabelais, 37020 Tours, France)

Abstract

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.

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  • Hélène Kane & Jade Gourret Baumgart & Emmanuel Rusch & Gaëtan Absil & Jocelyn Deloyer & Wissam El-Hage & Donatella Marazziti & Andrea Pozza & Johannes Thome & Oliver Tucha & Wim Verwaest & Laurence Fo, 2022. "COVID-19 and Physical Distancing Measures: Experience of Psychiatric Professionals in Europe," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(4), pages 1-14, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:19:y:2022:i:4:p:2214-:d:750353
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    1. Jade Gourret Baumgart & Hélène Kane & Wissam El-Hage & Jocelyn Deloyer & Christine Maes & Marie-Clotilde Lebas & Donatella Marazziti & Johannes Thome & Laurence Fond-Harmant & Frédéric Denis, 2021. "The Early Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Health Facilities and Psychiatric Professionals," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(15), pages 1-35, July.
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