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Expérience au travail du personnel des établissements de soins de longue durée lors de la première vague de la pandémie de COVID-19 au Québec

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  • Carl-Ardy Dubois
  • Roxane Borgès Da Silva
  • Alexandre Prud'homme

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The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic was marked in Quebec by the heaviest toll in Canada in terms of both the number of people infected and deaths. According to the INSPQ, 92% of deaths were among people aged 70 and over. Long-term care facilities and other living and care environments dedicated to seniors were hit hard. How did workers in these settings experience this episode? At the request of the Health and Welfare Commissioner, a CIRANO research team conducted a survey of 2,365 workers in the field. These people testified about their experience at work during the first wave of the pandemic. The focus was on their perceptions of the resources they had access to—and those they did not—and the demands and constraints they had to face. It also sought to better understand why many intended to leave their jobs. By focusing on the perspective of the workers themselves, the study by Carl-Ardy Dubois, Dean and Full Professor at the School of Public Health of the Université de Montréal and CIRANO Researcher, carried out in collaboration with Roxane Borges da Silva and Alexandre Prud'homme, sheds light on the various situations of human resource fragility that may have affected the performance of the health system in its response to the pandemic. La première vague de la pandémie de COVID-19 a été marquée au Québec par le plus lourd bilan au Canada tant en termes du nombre de personnes infectées que de décès. Selon l’INSPQ, 92 % des décès recensés ont touché les personnes âgées de 70 ans et plus. Les établissements de soins de longue durée et autres milieux de vie et de soins dédiés aux aînés ont été frappés de plein fouet. Comment les travailleuses et travailleurs oeuvrant dans ces milieux ont-elles vécu cet épisode ? À la demande de la Commissaire à la santé et au bien-être, une équipe de recherche du CIRANO a réalisé une enquête auprès de 2365 travailleuses et travailleurs. Ces personnes ont témoigné de leur expérience au travail pendant la première vague de la pandémie. On s’est intéressé à leurs perceptions quant aux ressources auxquelles elles ont eu accès — et celles auxquelles elles n'ont pas eu accès — et aux exigences et contraintes auxquelles elles ont dû faire face. On a aussi cherché à mieux comprendre pourquoi une proportion importante avait l’intention de quitter leur emploi. En portant attention à la perspective des travailleuses et travailleurs, l’étude de Carl-Ardy Dubois, Doyen et professeur titulaire à l’École de santé publique de l’Université de Montréal et Chercheur CIRANO, réalisée en collaboration avec Roxane Borges da Silva et Alexandre Prud’homme, nous éclaire sur les diverses situations de fragilité des ressources humaines qui ont pu affecter la performance du système de santé dans sa réponse à la pandémie.

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  • Carl-Ardy Dubois & Roxane Borgès Da Silva & Alexandre Prud'homme, 2022. "Expérience au travail du personnel des établissements de soins de longue durée lors de la première vague de la pandémie de COVID-19 au Québec," CIRANO Project Reports 2022rp-13, CIRANO.
  • Handle: RePEc:cir:cirpro:2022rp-13
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    Long term care; pandemic; Covid-19; seniors; CHSLD; Soins longue durée; pandémie; Covid-19; aînés; CHSLD;
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