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28.07.2021 | COVID-19 | Original Article Zur Zeit gratis

A Rapid Ethnographic Assessment of the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Health Services Delivery in an Acute Care Medical Emergency Department and Trauma Center

verfasst von: Lawrence A. Palinkas, Allison Engstrom, Lauren Whiteside, Kathleen Moloney, Douglas Zatzick

Erschienen in: Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research | Ausgabe 2/2022

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Abstract

A rapid ethnographic assessment of delivery of mental health services to patients at a Level I trauma center in a major metropolitan hospital undergoing a COVID-19 surge was conducted to assess the challenges involved in services delivery and to compare the experience of delivering services across time. Study participants were patients and providers who interacted with or otherwise were observed by three clinicians engaged in the delivery of care within the Emergency Department (ED) and Trauma Center at Harborview Medical Center from the COVID-19-related “surge” in April to the end of July 2020. Data were collected and analyzed in accordance with the Rapid Assessment Procedures-Informed Clinical Ethnography (RAPICE) protocol. Community and institutional efforts to control the spread of the coronavirus created several challenges to providing mental health services in an acute care setting during the April surge. Most of these challenges were successfully addressed by standardization of infection control protocols, but new challenges emerged including an increase in expenses for infection control and reduction in clinical revenues due to fewer patients, furloughs of mental health services providers and peer specialists in the ED, services not provided or delayed, increased stress due to fear of furloughs or increased workload of those not furloughed, and increases in patients seen with injuries due to risky behavior, violence, and substance use. These findings illustrate the rapidly shifting nature of the pandemic, its impacts on mental health services, and the mitigation efforts of communities and healthcare systems.
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Metadaten
Titel
A Rapid Ethnographic Assessment of the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Health Services Delivery in an Acute Care Medical Emergency Department and Trauma Center
verfasst von
Lawrence A. Palinkas
Allison Engstrom
Lauren Whiteside
Kathleen Moloney
Douglas Zatzick
Publikationsdatum
28.07.2021
Verlag
Springer US
Schlagwort
COVID-19
Erschienen in
Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research / Ausgabe 2/2022
Print ISSN: 0894-587X
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-3289
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-021-01154-2

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