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=13 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 frail person 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 manuscript 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 effectiveness of the Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) treatment provided to support them during this Pandemic.