Smartphone-based COVID-19 support for care home staff

为疗养院工作人员提供基于智能手机的 COVID-19 支持

• 批准号: 66222
• 金额: $ 9.25万
• 依托单位: COGNITANT GROUP LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Feasibility Studies
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=66222
• 关键词: Smartphone; based; COVID; 19; support

Care home residents and those receiving community-based care are now recognised to be at great risk from Covid-19. We are relying on care home staff to look after this very vulnerable group of people with very little support. Although highly experienced in the general care of frail patients, care home staff are under tremendous pressure as they learn how to safely manage patients affected by Covid-19 and how to protect spread of the infection to others. Furthermore, care associations have recently reported a significant increase in mental health issues among care workers since the start of the pandemic, and a lack of resources to help staff cope with stress and anxiety. This project will develop and deliver a free, short, high impact training programme for all care staff to access via smartphones. The programme will cover how to conduct medical observations such as measuring blood pressure and oxygen levels in order to liaise with remote clinical teams to ensure that patients who develop more severe illness are assessed for further medical treatment. The training modules will be shared amongst care staff by care organisations and by staff themselves using peer to peer networks and social media. The programme includes a self-assessment component and a certificate of completion. This is an innovative approach which will support and train care workers with minimal disruption to their time and work duties. The smartphone-based route makes the content highly accessible and creates a mechanism to provide updates to care staff as policy and procedures are adjusted over time.Cognitant Group has experience in building visual immersive health education modules for both healthcare professionals and patients and has the infrastructure in place to undertake this project at short notice. This includes a team of highly skilled and experienced developers, clinicians, writers and animators. The Extension for Impact funding will enable Cognitant Group to expand the training programme for care workers, covering additional topics such as how to identify and manage residents’ long-term health issues post-recovery, and how to manage their own mental health, particularly stress, anxiety and depression, during this highly pressurised time. It will also provide the required resource to increase social media activities to drive further engagement with the programme, and to seek official endorsement of the modules for high credibility.

护理院居民和接受社区护理的人现在被认为面临着新冠肺炎的巨大风险。我们依靠养老院的工作人员来照顾这群非常脆弱的人，他们得到的支持很少。尽管护理院员工在体弱患者的一般护理方面经验丰富，但他们在学习如何安全管理受COVID-19影响的患者以及如何防止感染传播给他人时面临巨大压力。此外，护理协会最近报告说，自大流行开始以来，护理工作者的心理健康问题显著增加，并且缺乏资源来帮助工作人员科普压力和焦虑。该项目将为所有护理人员开发和提供一个免费、简短、高影响力的培训计划，供他们通过智能手机访问。该方案将涵盖如何进行医疗观察，如测量血压和氧气水平，以便与远程临床小组联络，确保对病情更严重的病人进行评估，以便进一步治疗。护理组织和护理人员本身将利用对等网络和社交媒体在护理人员中分享培训模块。该方案包括自我评估部分和结业证书。这是一个创新的方法，将支持和培训护理人员，尽量减少对他们的时间和工作职责的干扰。基于智能手机的路线使内容高度可访问，并创建了一个机制，随着政策和程序的调整，向护理人员提供更新。Cognitant Group在为医疗保健专业人员和患者构建可视化沉浸式健康教育模块方面拥有丰富的经验，并拥有在短时间内完成此项目的基础设施。这包括一个由高技能和经验丰富的开发人员，临床医生，作家和动画师组成的团队。“扩展影响”资金将使Cognitant Group能够扩大护理人员的培训计划，涵盖更多主题，例如如何识别和管理居民康复后的长期健康问题，以及如何在这个高度压力的时期管理自己的心理健康，特别是压力，焦虑和抑郁。它还将提供所需资源，以增加社交媒体活动，推动进一步参与该方案，并寻求官方认可这些模块，以提高其可信度。