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COVID-19 triggering homecare professionals’ change of attitudes towards e-Welfare




TekijätKuoppakangas Päivikki, Lindfors Juha, Stenvall Jari, Kinder Tony, Talonen Antti

KustantajaFinnish Social and Health Informatics Association

Julkaisuvuosi2020

JournalFinnish Journal of eHealth and eWelfare

Lehden akronyymiFinJeHew

Vuosikerta12

Numero3

Aloitussivu241

Lopetussivu249

eISSN1798-0798

DOIhttps://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.23996/fjhw.95131

Verkko-osoitehttps://journal.fi/finjehew/article/view/95131


Tiivistelmä

During 2020, the COVID-19 crisis expanded the use of digital tools in public health and social care. The aim of this qualitative, single-case study was to scrutinize how homecare professionals experienced meaningfulness in their work in the midst of a crisis and with the utilization of the videophone in long-term homecare service provision. The empirical data consisted of 20 thematic interviews carried out among homecare professionals and their managers in the city of Tampere, Finland. The results indicated that the videophone can generate significance, self-realization and broader purposes among homecare professionals, thus providing meaningfulness for work in the midst of a crisis and continuous work-related changes. In addition, a crisis may support change in the meaningfulness of e-welfare in work-related tasks and aid in overcoming reluctance amongst public-sector social care (homecare) professionals towards an e-welfare initiative: the videophone (VideoVisit).



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