RT Journal Article
T1 Psychological and functional impacts associated with restrictions in long-term care facilities (LTCF) due to the COVID-19 pandemic: A multicentre study
A1 Pereiro Rozas, Arturo X.
A1 Leiva, D.
A1 Pinazo Hernandis, S.
A1 Dosil Díaz, Carlos
A1 Galván, A.
A1 Felpete López, Alba
A1 Facal Mayo, David
A1 Pinazo Clapés, Carolina
K1 Older adults
K1 Long Term Care Facility
K1 COVID-19 lockdown
K1 Cognition
K1 Affect
K1 Functionality
AB Objectives: To analyze the impacts of the restrictions implemented in LTCF during the COVID-19 pandemic on the psychological and functional status of older adults.Design: A retrospective multicentre study. We hypothesize that the negative effects of the restrictions will lead to a higher rate of decline between the measures taken immediately before and after the lockdown than between the two measures taken before the lockdown.Setting and participants: 365 participants recruited in four Spanish LTCFs in Galicia and Valencia.Methods: Impacts of restrictions on cognitive (MMSE), affective (GDS) and functional status (Barthel index, Tinetti) were analyzed by Linear Mixed Models with random intercepts, random slopes, and personal and contextual factors as covariates. Results: Social measures covaried significantly with the cognitive and functional status but did not predict longitudinal change. MMSE, Barthel index and Tinetti scores decreased significantly across pre- and post-lockdown measurement times, but only the Tinetti scores showed a specific impact of the restrictions.Conclusions and Implications: Only performance-based functional measures showed the real impact of restrictions. The findings highlight the importance of having data from several pre-lockdown measurements to enable identification of changes that can be causally attributed to the restrictions. The findings also support the resilience of older adults in mitigating the effect of the restrictions. 
PB Taylor and Francis
SN 1360-7863
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32090
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32090
LA eng
NO A. X. Pereiro, D. Leiva, A. Galvañ, S. Pinazo-Hernandis, C. Pinazo-Clapés, C. Dosil-Díaz, A. Felpete & D. Facal (2023) Psychological and functional impacts associated with restrictions in long-term care facilities (LTCF) due to the COVID-19 pandemic: A multicentre study, Aging & Mental Health, 27:8, 1544-1551
NO This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Aging and Mental Health on 2022-12-20, available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2022.2158306
NO This work was financially supported with FEDER founds (‘A way to make Europe’) bythe Spanish AEI (Doi: 10.13039/501100011033; Refs. PID2020-114521RB-C21 andPSI2017-89389-C2-1-R) and by the Galician Government (Consellería de Cultura,Educación e Ordenación Universitaria; axudas para a consolidación e estruturación deunidades de investigación competitivas do Sistema Universitario de Galicia ED431C2021/04; GI-1807-USC: Ref. 2021-PG011).
DS Minerva
RD 22 abr 2026