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

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 Fond-Harmant and Frédéric Denis
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Hélène Kane: EA 7505 Éducation, Ethique, Sante, Université François-Rabelais, 37020 Tours, France
Jade Gourret Baumgart: EA 7505 Éducation, Ethique, Sante, Université François-Rabelais, 37020 Tours, France
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
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
Frédéric Denis: EA 7505 Éducation, Ethique, Sante, Université François-Rabelais, 37020 Tours, France

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 4, 1-14

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.

Keywords: COVID-19; digital technologies; mental health; professional healthcare practices; psychiatry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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