Visit-id: a study of care home visiting arrangements during Covid-19
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Visit-id: a study of care home visiting arrangements during Covid-19
IRAS ID
299799
Contact name
Josie Dixon
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
London School of Economics and Political Science
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 2 months, 31 days
Research summary
The Visit-id study (a study of care home visiting arrangements during COVID-19) examines how care homes in England have developed and implemented their visiting policies during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the factors that shape this.
We already have ethical approval from the LSE Research Ethics Committee for research with care homes, involving an online survey questionnaire and in-depth qualitative interviews with care home managers (or a nominated senior member of staff) to further explore issues emerging from the survey.
We are now applying to SCREC for ethical approval for a final and separate part of this project, involving in-depth qualitative interviews with 30-35 family carers (family members or close friends) of people living in care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. During the interviews we will ask family carers about their experience with the visiting policy in their relative’s care home. We are particularly interested in understanding
how policies were communicated to family carers,
if family carers found them fair, appropriate and proportionate,
how they perceived that policies were applied in practice and
if and how families were involved in the development of policies.
We plan to recruit family carers through a wide range of partner organisations and social media. We will conduct interviews remotely by telephone or through secure virtual tools (zoom/MS teams/Skype). The interviews will be audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Common themes will be drawn out and analysed using Framework Analysis, a method useful for applied policy research.
REC name
London - Camberwell St Giles Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
21/LO/0564
Date of REC Opinion
2 Sep 2021
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion