John William Kerns, Jonathan D Winter, Katherine M Winter, Rebecca Etz, Sarah Reves, C J Christian Bergman
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Understanding Pandemic Increases in Long-Stay Psychotropic Prescribing for Dementia Symptoms: A Survey of Nursing Home Clinicians.
Objective: To explore the perceptions of nursing home (NH) clinicians regarding factors underpinning known increases in psychotropic prescribing over the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Three iterative online surveys were fielded to Virginia NH prescribing clinicians (11/2021-6/2022) to assess their perspectives regarding factors driving pandemic increases in NH psychotropic use. Existing literature and emerging survey data informed survey content. Sampling was for convenience and achieved through crowdsourcing, leveraging collaborations with Virginia NH clinician professional organizations. Results: A total of 89 surveys were collected. Clinicians noted simultaneous surging of dementia symptoms with decreased availability of non-pharmacologic measures to remedy them, leading to increased prescribing of all psychotropics. Staff shortages and turnover, isolation from family and community, and personal protective equipment protocols were identified as key pandemic factors contributing to this mismatch. Conclusions: Virginia NH clinicians explicitly linked increased NH psychotropic prescribing to known pandemic phenomena, associations previously hypothesized, but not, to our knowledge, directly confirmed.
期刊介绍:
Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine (GGM) is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed open access journal where scholars from a variety of disciplines present their work focusing on the psychological, behavioral, social, and biological aspects of aging, and public health services and research related to aging. The journal addresses a wide variety of topics related to health services research in gerontology and geriatrics. GGM seeks to be one of the world’s premier Open Access outlets for gerontological academic research. As such, GGM does not limit content due to page budgets or thematic significance. Papers will be subjected to rigorous peer review but will be selected solely on the basis of whether the research is sound and deserves publication. By virtue of not restricting papers to a narrow discipline, GGM facilitates the discovery of the connections between papers.