Table 1.

Interview Guide.

What was your visitor policy before the pandemic?
How did it change?
How did you involve your patients’ relatives before the pandemic? How did this change during the pandemic?
How did you experience these changes?
Were exceptions to the restraining order made? If so, how did you experience these exceptions?
Please describe how you handled contact with relatives during the pandemic? How did it feel?
If you used alternative communication solutions to involve relatives, can you describe them and how you experienced them?
How do you think the patients experienced the restraining orders?
How do you feel relatives were affected by not being able to have contact with their relatives?
What ethical challenges did you experience because of the restraining order? Do you think it affected your working group and working methods?
Did anything else about your work change because relatives were unable to visit?
Follow-up questions: Can you tell…? What did you think…? How did you feel…? Can you give examples…?