School of Nursing, Qingdao University, Qingdao, China.
Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
J Appl Gerontol. 2024 Jan;43(1):3-12. doi: 10.1177/07334648231197074. Epub 2023 Aug 30.
Nursing homes were profoundly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, influencing work outcomes of care aides who provide the most direct care. We compared care aides' quality of work life by conducting a repeated cross-sectional analysis of data collected in February 2020 and December 2021 from a stratified random sample of urban nursing homes in two Canadian provinces. We used two-level random-intercept repeated-measures regression models, adjusting for demographics and nursing home characteristics. 2348 and 1116 care aides completed the survey in February 2020 and December 2021, respectively. The 2021 sample had higher odds of reporting worked short-staffed daily to weekly in the previous month than the 2020 sample. The 2021 sample also had a small but significant drop in professional efficacy and mental health. Despite the worsening changes, our findings suggest that this workforce may have withstood the pandemic better than might be expected.
养老院受到了 COVID-19 大流行的严重影响，影响了提供最直接护理的护理员的工作成果。我们通过对 2020 年 2 月和 2021 年 12 月从加拿大两个省份的城市养老院分层随机抽样收集的数据进行重复横断面分析，比较了护理员的工作生活质量。我们使用了两水平随机截距重复测量回归模型，调整了人口统计学和养老院特征。2348 名和 1116 名护理员分别在 2020 年 2 月和 2021 年 12 月完成了调查。与 2020 年样本相比，2021 年样本报告上个月每天到每周都人手不足的可能性更高。2021 年样本的专业效能和心理健康也略有下降。尽管情况恶化，但我们的研究结果表明，这支劳动力队伍可能比预期的要好。
