Decision‐Making Around COVID‐19 Public Health Measures and Implications for Self‐Care Activities: Experiences of Persons With Rheumatoid Arthritis
Authors' conclusion
Across themes, experiences of decision-making about public health measures during the pandemic were embedded with moral concepts of solidarity, autonomy, and trust, with implications for how persons with RA chose and sustained their self-care activities.
Study context
- Population
- Persons with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in British Columbia, Canada, strategically sampled from an RCT of a physical activity counseling intervention; interviewed December 2020–December 2021aged 26–86 years
- Participants
- 39 persons
- Outcome
- Experiences of decision-making about adopting public health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic
Methodological detailsnested in an RCT, one-to-one semistructured telephone interviews, reflexive thematic analysis, patient partners
- Nested in an RCT
- One-to-one semistructured telephone interviews
- Reflexive thematic analysis
- Patient partners
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Themes of decision-making about public health measures
- "Upholding moral values of togetherness": decisions intertwined with moral values of neighborliness and reciprocity; some adapted self-care routines to uphold these values
- "Relational autonomy-supports and challenges": sometimes felt supported and undermined in different relational settings (eg, family, local community, provincial government)
- "Differing trust in information sources": decisions shaped by degree of faith in various information sources, incl. their rheumatologists
Original publication
Decision‐Making Around COVID‐19 Public Health Measures and Implications for Self‐Care Activities: Experiences of Persons With Rheumatoid Arthritis. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). Published 6 December 2023. doi:10.
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