Frontiers in Psychology (Oct 2022)

The psychological impact of the COVID emergency on Italian nursing homes staff and the effectiveness of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

  • Elisa Faretta,
  • Giada Maslovaric,
  • M. Ignazia Garau,
  • Gabriella Marmondi,
  • Laura Piras,
  • Simona Rezzola,
  • Alessia Incerti,
  • Anna Nardoni,
  • Marco Pagani,
  • Eugenio Gallina

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.969028
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13

Abstract

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Residential nursing homes were particularly badly affected by the first wave of COVID-19, with large numbers of their frail person getting infected with COVID-19 and dying. The staff in these structures were catapulted into a reality very different from what they were used to. They had to adapt the way they used to take care of their patients in a very short space of time and in a scenario that was continually changing. In this manuscript we describe the subjective experience of staff in a number of Italian nursing homes during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic; and we report data showing the effectiveness of the Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) treatment provided to support them during this Pandemic.

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