How to bring residents’ psychosocial well-being to the heart of the fight against Covid-19 in Belgian nursing homes—A qualitative study

• Sanne Kaelen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sanne Kaelen, Wilma van den Boogaard, Umberto Pellecchia

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sanne.kaelen@hotmail.com

  Affiliation Belgium Covid-19 Project, Médecins Sans Frontières, Operational Centre Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4524-0983

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• Wilma van den Boogaard ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sanne Kaelen, Wilma van den Boogaard, Umberto Pellecchia

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, Operational Centre Brussels, Operational Research Unit (LuxOR), Luxembourg, Luxembourg/Brussels, Belgium

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• Umberto Pellecchia ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sanne Kaelen, Wilma van den Boogaard, Umberto Pellecchia

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, Operational Centre Brussels, Operational Research Unit (LuxOR), Luxembourg, Luxembourg/Brussels, Belgium

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• Sofie Spiers ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ SS, CDC, GD, EF, RVB and SG also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Belgium Covid-19 Project, Médecins Sans Frontières, Operational Centre Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

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• Caroline De Cramer ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ SS, CDC, GD, EF, RVB and SG also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Belgium Covid-19 Project, Médecins Sans Frontières, Operational Centre Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

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• Gwennin Demaegd ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ SS, CDC, GD, EF, RVB and SG also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Belgium Covid-19 Project, Médecins Sans Frontières, Operational Centre Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

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• Edouard Fouqueray ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ SS, CDC, GD, EF, RVB and SG also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Belgium Covid-19 Project, Médecins Sans Frontières, Operational Centre Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

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• Rafael Van den Bergh ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ SS, CDC, GD, EF, RVB and SG also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Belgium Covid-19 Project, Médecins Sans Frontières, Operational Centre Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6277-8713

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• Stephanie Goublomme ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ SS, CDC, GD, EF, RVB and SG also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Belgium Covid-19 Project, Médecins Sans Frontières, Operational Centre Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

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• Tom Decroo,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Muriel Quinet,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Iriscare, Public Health Institute, Brussels, Belgium

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• Elke Van Hoof,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Working Group on the Psychosocial Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic Within the Superior Health Council, Brussels, Belgium, Mental Health Sub-working Group, GEES, Brussels, Belgium, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

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• Bertrand Draguez

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Belgium Covid-19 Project, Médecins Sans Frontières, Operational Centre Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

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