• Hervé Lefèvre, Chantal Stheneur, Charlotte Cardin, Lola Fourcade, Christine Fourmaux, Elise Tordjman, Marie Touati, Flore Voisard, Sevan Minassian, Pauline Chaste, Marie Rose Moro, and Jonathan Lachal.
• APHP, Hôpital Cochin, Maison de Solenn, Paris, France; Université de Paris, PCPP, Boulogne-Billancourt, France; Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ, Inserm, CESP, Team DevPsy, Villejuif, France.
• J Pain Symptom Manage. 2021 Feb 1; 61 (2): 416-422.

AbstractThe coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic presents unprecedented challenges for the health care system. The pressure on health care staff continues to intensify, accentuated by the confinement (lockdown) of the population and the unprecedented duration of this emergency. Separately and especially together, overwork, degraded conditions of care because of the never-ending emergency, and the risk of exposure to the virus can lead to acute psychological distress or signs of burnout. This original program was developed at Cochin Hospital in Paris, France to prevent these potentially dramatic psychological consequences, support the medical staff, and identify those most affected to offer them specific care. A program and a space for relaxation and support for hospital caregivers by hospital caregivers, the Port Royal Bulle (the Bubble) offers these workers help in decompression and relaxation. It combines a warm and caring welcome that promotes attention, listening, conversations, and exchanges as needed, empathetic support, and the ability to participate in soothing, relaxing, or low-impact physical activities. It takes care of caregivers. The Bubble is a program that is simple to set up and that appears to meet professionals' expectations. Making it permanent and enlarging its scale, as a complement to existing programs, might help to support health care personnel in their work.Copyright © 2020 American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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