TY - JOUR
AU - Menear, Matthew
AU - Duhoux, Arnaud
AU - Bédard, Myreille
AU - Paquette, Jean-Sébastien
AU - Baron, Marie
AU - Breton, Mylaine
AU - Courtemanche, Simon
AU - Dubé, Savannah
AU - Dufour, Stefany
AU - Fortin, Martin
AU - Girard, Ariane
AU - Larouche-Côté, Émilie
AU - L’Espérance, Audrey
AU - LeBlanc, Annie
AU - Poitras, Marie-Eve
AU - Rivet, Sophie
AU - Sasseville, Maxime
AU - Achim, Amélie
AU - Archambault, Patrick
AU - Bajurny, Virtue
AU - Brown, Judith
AU - Carrier, Jean-Daniel
AU - Côté, Nancy
AU - Couturier, Yves
AU - Dogba, Maman Joyce
AU - Gagnon, Marie-Pierre
AU - Ghio, Sergio Cortez
AU - Marshall, Emily Gard
AU - Kothari, Anita
AU - Lussier, Marie-Thérèse
AU - Mair, Frances S.
AU - Smith, Susan
AU - Vachon, Brigitte
AU - Wong, Sabrina
PY - 2023
DA - July
TI - Understanding the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the care experiences of people with mental-physical multimorbidity: protocol for a mixed methods study
JO - BMC Primary Care
VL - 24
DO - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-023-02106-5
AB - Background: Primary care and other health services have been disrupted during the COVID-19 pandemic, yet the consequences of these service disruptions on patients’ care experiences remain largely unstudied. People with mental-physical multimorbidity are vulnerable to the effects of the pandemic, and to sudden service disruptions. It is thus essential to better understand how their care experiences have been impacted by the current pandemic. This study aims to improve understanding of the care experiences of people with mental-physical multimorbidity during the pandemic and identify strategies to enhance these experiences. Methods: We will conduct a mixed-methods study with multi-phase approach involving four distinct phases. Phase 1 will be a qualitative descriptive study in which we interview individuals with mental-physical multimorbidity and health professionals in order to explore the impacts of the pandemic on care experiences, as well as their perspectives on how care can be improved. The results of this phase will inform the design of study phases 2 and 3. Phase 2 will involve journey mapping exercises with a sub-group of participants with mental-physical multimorbidity to visually map out their care interactions and experiences over time and the critical moments that shaped their experiences. Phase 3 will involve an online, cross-sectional survey of care experiences administered to a larger group of people with mental disorders and/or chronic physical conditions. In phase 4, deliberative dialogues will be held with key partners to discuss and plan strategies for improving the delivery of care to people with mental-physical multimorbidity. Pre-dialogue workshops will enable us to synthesize an prepare the results from the previous three study phases. Discussion: Our study results will generate much needed evidence of the positive and negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the care experiences of people with mental-physical multimorbidity and shed light on strategies that could improve care quality and experiences.
PB - Springer Nature
UR - https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/304676/
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
KW - Mental health and wellbeing
ER