AUTHOR=Faretta Elisa , Maslovaric Giada , Garau M. Ignazia , Marmondi Gabriella , Piras Laura , Rezzola Simona , Incerti Alessia , Nardoni Anna , Pagani Marco , Gallina Eugenio 

TITLE=The psychological impact of the COVID emergency on Italian nursing homes staff and the effectiveness of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 13 - 2022

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.969028

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2022.969028

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=Residential nursing homes were particularly badly affected by the first wave of COVID-19, with large numbers of their fragile residents getting infected with Covid- 19 and dying. The staff in these structures were catapulted into a reality very different from what they were used to. They had to adapt the way they used to take care of their patients in a very short space of time and in a scenario that was continually changing.
In this paper we describe the subjective experience of staff in a number of Italian nursing homes during the first wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic; and we report data showing the efficacy of the EMDR treatment programmes provided to support them during this Pandemic.