Covid-19 Impacts on Florida’s Healthcare Professionals

Hicks‐Roof, Kristen; Xu, Jing; Zeglin, Robert J.; Bailey, Chloe E; Hamadi, Hanadi; Osborne, Raine

doi:10.1080/00185868.2021.1927277

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“…While multiple studies have reported on the psychological well-being of healthcare workers during COVID-19 [ 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 ], our study is one of the first to examine the influence of the pandemic by controlling for before the pandemic in nursing students in Saudi Arabia. Data collection occurred during the first wave of the pandemic in the country.…”

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Stress and Coping Strategies among Nursing Students in Clinical Practice during COVID-19

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Stress is common among nursing students and it has been exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study examined nursing students’ stress levels and their coping strategies in clinical practice before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. A repeated-measures study design was used to examine the relationship between nursing students’ stress levels and coping strategies before and during the pandemic. Confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to validate the survey and a student T-test was used to compare the level of stress and coping strategies among 131 nursing students. The STROBE checklist was used. During COVID-19, there was a reliable and accurate relationship between stress and coping strategies. Furthermore, both stress and coping strategy scores were lower before COVID-19 and higher during COVID-19. Nursing students are struggling to achieve a healthy stress-coping strategy during the pandemic. There is a need for the introduction of stress management programs to help foster healthy coping skills. Students are important resources for our health system and society and will continue to be vital long term. It is now up to both nursing educators and health administrators to identify and implement the needed improvements in training and safety measures because they are essential for the health of the patient as well as future pandemics.

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Stress and Coping Strategies among Nursing Students in Clinical Practice during COVID-19

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“…37 Technology-assisted relationships, including telehealth, are therefore not anomalous for most mental health professionals. [38][39][40] This may be why a recent study by McClellan and Florell 41 noted that 89% of mental health clinicians in their sample had favorable or neutral attitudes toward telehealth.…”

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Healthcare Professionals and Telehealth Usability During COVID-19

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Objective: During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, many other health providers needed to rapidly adopt telehealth services to ensure continuity of patient care, without the opportunity to extensively evaluate the usability of the adopted technology. Therefore, this study aims to examine health professionals’ telehealth usability during COVID-19 in Florida. Design: This cross-sectional study employed the Telehealth Usability Questionnaire (TUQ) to licensed healthcare providers in Florida in June 2020. Setting and Participants: A total of 399,660 selected health professionals with Florida licensure were recruited from open-access Florida healthcare to participate in a Qualtrics web-based survey. A total of 1868 health professionals completed the survey. Multiple linear and mixed regression models were applied to analyze the overall and subdomain scores from TUQ. Main outcome measures: Telehealth Usability. Results: The analysis of overall TUQ score showed younger, female healthcare professionals, and participants who reported an increase of telehealth usage during pandemic had a significantly higher overall TUQ score. Compared with the score from physicians and nurses, the scores from the mental health group and social work group were significantly higher, while the score rehabilitation group was significantly lower. Analysis of the subdomain scores were consistent with the overall scores. Conclusion: The findings from this study indicate that the health professionals’ telehealth usability is related to age, gender, and the change of telehealth usage during the COVID-19 pandemic. While pandemics represent only one possible impetus for the healthcare system to swiftly switch to telehealth platforms, each profession should consider providing adequate resources to accommodate the need for change.

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“…The TAM model allows us to identify characteristics that affect the use of telehealth technologies. Survey questions for this study were extracted from validated health surveys such as the Telehealth Usability Questionnaire (TUQ) [16][17][18]. This study expands on a previous study conducted in the United States and has been modified specifically for healthcare professionals in Saudi Arabia.…”

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Examining Healthcare Professionals’ Telehealth Usability before and during COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study

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COVID-19 has placed substantial stress on healthcare providers in Saudi Arabia as they struggle to avoid contracting the virus, provide continued care for their patients, and protect their own families at home from possible exposure. The demand for care has increased due to the need to treat COVID-19. This pandemic has created a surge in the need for care in select healthcare delivery specialties, forcing other nonurgent or elective care to halt or transition to telehealth. This study provides a timely description of how COVID-19 affected employment, telehealth usage, and interprofessional collaboration. The STROBE checklist was used. We developed a cross-sectional online survey design that is rooted and grounded in the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). The TAM model allows us to identify characteristics that affect the use of telehealth technologies. The survey was deployed in November 2021 to local healthcare providers in Saudi Arabia. There were 66 individuals in the final sample. Both interprofessional satisfaction on frequency and quality were positively correlated with the frequency of interactions. The odds for satisfaction of frequency and quality were about 12 times (OR = 12.27) and 8 times 110 (OR = 8.24) more, respectively, for the participants with more than three times of interaction than the participants with no interaction at all. We also found that change in telehealth usage during the pandemic was positively associated with the Telehealth Usability Questionnaire (TUQ) scores. The estimated score for the participants who reported an increase in telehealth usage was 5.37, while the scores were lower for the participants reporting ‘no change’ and ‘decreased usage’. Additional training on telehealth use and integration to improve interprofessionalism is needed.

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Covid-19 Impacts on Florida’s Healthcare Professionals

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Stress and Coping Strategies among Nursing Students in Clinical Practice during COVID-19

Stress and Coping Strategies among Nursing Students in Clinical Practice during COVID-19

Healthcare Professionals and Telehealth Usability During COVID-19

Examining Healthcare Professionals’ Telehealth Usability before and during COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study

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