{"id":8752,"date":"2020-08-05T11:23:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T18:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8752"},"modified":"2021-04-06T11:24:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T18:24:01","slug":"experiences-of-home-health-care-workers-in-new-york-city-during-the-coronavirus-disease-2019-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/05\/experiences-of-home-health-care-workers-in-new-york-city-during-the-coronavirus-disease-2019-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Experiences of Home Health Care Workers in New York City During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"14\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In a qualitative study of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">home healthcare workers caring for older adults and chronically ill patients in New York City during\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">March and April 2020<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(n=33)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, participants\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">reported that they<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">felt invisible,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">despite<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0being on the frontlines of the medical response. They also reported a heightened risk for virus transmission; inconsistent information, supplies, and training from their home care agencies; and having to make difficult trade-offs in their work and personal lives.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"14\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Home healthcare workers interviewed were mostly women (97%) and Black (64%) or Hispanic (18%).\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0Sterling et al. (Aug 4, 2020). Experiences of Home Health Care Workers in New York City During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic. JAMA Internal Medicine.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamainternmed.2020.3930\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamainternmed.2020.3930<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a qualitative study of\u00a0home healthcare workers caring for older adults and chronically ill patients in New York City during\u00a0March and April 2020\u00a0(n=33), participants\u00a0reported that they\u00a0felt invisible,\u00a0despite\u00a0being on the frontlines of the medical response. They also reported a heightened risk for virus transmission; inconsistent information, supplies, and training from their home care agencies; and having&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/05\/experiences-of-home-health-care-workers-in-new-york-city-during-the-coronavirus-disease-2019-pandemic\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-8752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8753,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8752\/revisions\/8753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8752"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}