Beogo Idrissa, Sia Drissa, Tchouaket Nguemeleu Eric, Zhao Junqiang, Gagnon Marie-Pierre, Etowa Josephine
School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
College of Nursing, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
JMIR Res Protoc. 2022 Mar 24;11(3):e36269. doi: 10.2196/36269.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had the greatest impact in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) by disproportionately harming older adults and heightening social isolation and loneliness (SIL). Living in close quarters with others and in need of around-the-clock assistance, interactions with older adults, which were previously in person, have been replaced by virtual chatting using information and communication technologies (ICTs). ICT applications such as FaceTime, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams video chatting have been overwhelmingly used by families to maintain residents' social capital and subsequently reduce their SIL.
Because of the lack of substantive knowledge on this ever-increasing form of social communication, this systematic review intends to synthesize the effects of ICT interventions to address SIL among residents in LTCFs during the COVID-19 period.
We will include studies published in Chinese, English, and French from December 2019 onwards. Beyond the traditional search strategy approach, 4 of the 12 electronic databases to be queried will be in Chinese. We will include quantitative and intervention studies as well as qualitative and mixed methods designs. Using a 2-person approach, the principal investigator and one author will blindly screen eligible articles, extract data, and assess risk of bias. In order to improve the first round of screening, a pilot-tested algorithm will be used. Disagreements will be resolved through discussion with a third author. Results will be presented as structured summaries of the included studies. We plan to conduct a meta-analysis if sufficient data are available.
A total of 1803 articles have been retrieved to date. Queries of the Chinese databases are ongoing. The systematic review and subsequent manuscript will be completed by the fall of 2022.
ICT applications have become a promising avenue to reduce SIL by providing a way to maintain communication between LTCF residents and their families and will certainly remain in the post-COVID-19 period. This review will investigate and describe context-pertinent and high-quality programs and initiatives to inform, at the macro level, policy makers and researchers, frontline managers, and families. These methods will remain relevant in the post-COVID-19 era.
INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT IDENTIFIER (IRRID): DERR1-10.2196/36269.
新型冠状病毒肺炎（COVID-19）疫情对长期护理机构（LTCF）产生了最大影响，它对老年人造成了不成比例的伤害，并加剧了社会隔离和孤独感（SIL）。由于与他人近距离生活且需要全天候护理，老年人此前的面对面交流已被使用信息通信技术（ICT）进行的虚拟聊天所取代。诸如FaceTime、Zoom和Microsoft Teams视频聊天等ICT应用已被家庭广泛用于维护居民的社会资本，进而减少他们的孤独感。
由于缺乏关于这种日益增长的社会交流形式的实质性知识，本系统评价旨在综合ICT干预措施在COVID-19期间对LTCF居民孤独感的影响。
我们将纳入2019年12月起发表的中文、英文和法文研究。除了传统的检索策略方法外，12个待检索的电子数据库中有4个将是中文数据库。我们将纳入定量和干预研究以及定性和混合方法设计。采用两人协作的方式，第一作者和一名作者将对符合条件的文章进行盲筛、提取数据并评估偏倚风险。为了改进第一轮筛选，将使用经过预试验的算法。分歧将通过与第三位作者讨论来解决。结果将以纳入研究的结构化总结形式呈现。如果有足够的数据可用，我们计划进行荟萃分析。
截至目前共检索到1803篇文章。中文数据库的检索正在进行中。系统评价及后续稿件将于2022年秋季完成。
ICT应用已成为减少孤独感的一条有前景的途径，它为LTCF居民及其家人之间保持沟通提供了一种方式，并且在COVID-19疫情之后肯定仍将存在。本评价将调查和描述与背景相关的高质量项目和举措，以便在宏观层面为政策制定者、研究人员、一线管理人员和家庭提供信息。这些方法在COVID-19疫情之后的时代仍将具有相关性。
国际注册报告识别号（IRRID）：DERR1-10.2196/36269。
