Schoultz, Mariyana, McGrogan, Claire, Beattie, Michelle, Macaden, Leah, Carolan, Clare, Polson, Rob and Dickens, Geoffrey (2022) Psychological first aid for workers in care and nursing homes: systematic review. BMC Nursing, 21 (1). p. 96. ISSN 1472-6955
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Abstract
Background: The Covid-19 pandemic has produced unprecedented challenges across all aspects of health and social care sectors globally. Nurses and healthcare workers in care homes have been particularly impacted due to rapid and dramatic changes to their job roles, workloads, and working environments, and residents’ multimorbidity. Developed by the World Health Organisation, Psychological First Aid (PFA) is a brief training course delivering social, emotional, supportive, and pragmatic support that can reduce the initial distress after disaster and foster future adaptive functioning.
Objectives: This review aimed to synthesise findings from studies exploring the usefulness of PFA for the well-being of nursing and residential care home staff.
Methods: A systematic search was conducted across 15 databases (Social Care Online, Kings Fund Library, Prospero, Dynamed, BMJ Best Practice, SIGN, NICE, Ovid, Proquest, Campbell Library, Clinical Trials, Web of Knowledge, Scopus, Ebsco CINAHL, and Cochrane Library), identifying peer-reviewed articles published in English language from database inception to 20th June 2021.
Results: Of the 1,159 articles screened, 1,146 were excluded at title and abstract; the remaining 13 articles were screened at full text, all of which were then excluded.
Conclusion: This review highlights that empirical evidence of the impact of PFA on the well-being of nursing and residential care home staff is absent. PFA has likely been recommended to healthcare staff during the Covid-19 pandemic. The lack of evidence found here reinforces the urgent need to conduct studies which evaluates the outcomes of PFA particularly in the care home staff population.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Funding information: Funding Received from RCN Foundation. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Psychological first aid, PFA, Care homes, Nursing homes, Systematic review, COVID-19, Care staf |
| Subjects: | B700 Nursing C800 Psychology |
| Department: | Faculties > Health and Life Sciences > Nursing, Midwifery and Health |
| Depositing User: | John Coen |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Apr 2022 13:59 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Apr 2022 14:01 |
| URI: | http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/49005 |
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