Factors disrupting the continuity of care for patients with chronic disease during the pandemics : A systematic review

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Background and Aims: Continuous routine care is necessary to prevent long-term complications of chronic diseases and improve patients' health conditions. This review study was conducted to determine the factors disrupting continuity of care for patients with chronic diseases during the pandemic.

Methods: All original articles published on factors disrupting continuity of care for patients with chronic disease during a pandemic between December 2019 and June 28, 2023, in PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, and ProQuest databases were searched. Selection of articles, data extraction, and qualitative evaluation of articles (through STROBE and COREQ checklist) were done by two researchers separately. Data graphing form was used to extract the data of each study and then the data were classified by thematic analysis method.

Results: Out of 1708 articles reviewed from the databases, 22 were included. The factors disrupting the continuity of care for patients with chronic diseases during the epidemics were classified into two main categories: patient-side factors and health system-side factors. Patient-side factors including psychological, individual and social, disease-related, and health system-side factors including provider access, health system institutional, and infrastructural and financial problems were among the subcategories disrupting the continuity of care for patients with chronic diseases during the pandemic. Based on the studies, psychological factors and access to the provider were among the most frequent factors affecting the continuity of care for patients with chronic diseases in the pandemic.

Conclusion: Considering the factors disrupting the continuity of care and applying appropriate interventions based on them, can guarantee the continuity of providing services to chronic patients in health crises.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:7

Enthalten in:

Health science reports - 7(2024), 2 vom: 16. Feb., Seite e1881

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ghanbari-Jahromi, Mohadeseh [VerfasserIn]
Kharazmi, Erfan [VerfasserIn]
Bastani, Peivand [VerfasserIn]
Shams, Mesbah [VerfasserIn]
Marzaleh, Milad Ahmadi [VerfasserIn]
Amin Bahrami, Mohammad [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Chronic disease
Continuity of patient care
Journal Article
Pandemics
Systematic review

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Date Revised 24.02.2024

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/hsr2.1881

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM368749789