Defilading COVID-19: Psychological Factors Associated

Akter, Shaila; Mazumder, Atiqul Haq; Eva, Sifat Ara; Apu, Ehsanul Hoque; Khan, Naghma

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3661767

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“…On the contrary, it does seem to exist, as some previous research predicts, that there is a negative effect on the doctor, when it comes to suffering or presenting fear and fear of infecting family and friends (32). This negative effect, in our study, translates into an increase in the work overload of the doctor in general terms, and especially in the dimension of frustration and is that, as in other publications, there is a relationship between emotions such as frustration, negativity and discouragement in people whose relatives are affected or admitted with Covid-19 pathologies (33,34).…”

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Has COVID-19 changed the workload for primary care physicians? The case of Spain

Fernández-Aguilar¹,

Casado‐Aranda

Fernández³

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Family Practice

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Background The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a massive over-exertion of doctors, multiplying their work intensity, overload and stress. Yet no studies have been conducted on the changes in primary care physician overload during the pandemic. Objective To address this research gap, the aim of this article is to document the subjective dimensions of physicians’ work during the peak of the pandemic for comparison with a pre-COVID-19 situation. In addition, the relationship between workload and the individual characteristics of the physician or the percentage of tele-assistance is examined. Methods This study performs a subjective measurement procedure for the analysis of work overload through the NASA-TLX questionnaire, with a total of 102 records from 16 doctors from a Primary Health Centers of the Granada-Metropolitan Health district (Andalusia, Spain). Results The results reflect a significantly higher workload during COVID-19 in relation to a previous situation (66.1% versus 48.6% before COVID-19). All the dimensions of the NASA-TLX test suffered an increase during the COVID-19, this increase being higher in the physical, temporal and frustration levels. Interestingly, the findings reflect the higher the percentage of telematic consultations, the lower workload. Conclusions Work overload and the emotional state of health workers is one of the many repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic. The results derived from this study may be useful in formulating policies and practices related to the workforce development, funding streams to prepare for the next wave of COVID-19 infections as well as for future public health emergencies.

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Has COVID-19 changed the workload for primary care physicians? The case of Spain

Fernández-Aguilar¹,

Casado‐Aranda

Fernández³

et al. 2021

Family Practice

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“…Researchers have identified different psychological factors associated with human behavior during this COVID-19 pandemic and the previous disease outbreak, such as panic buying and patient history hiding [36] [37]. These control the individual mental health of the entire community, society and professionals, such as health care workers and persons working in clinics [38][39].…”

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Trust Concerns Regarding Health-Related Smartphone Apps in Collecting Personally Identifiable Information Throughout COVID-19-like Zoonosis

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Coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19 is a zoonosis, which means a disease that contaminates from the animals to the humans. Since it is very highly epizootic, it has forced the public health experts to implement smartphone-based applications to trace its swift transmission trajectory as well as the affected individuals. For this, the individuals’ personally identifiable information is utilized. Nonetheless, these information may hamper privacy and cyber security, especially the trust concerns, if not handled properly. If the issues are not resolved at this very moment, the consequences will induce the mass level population to use the health-related applications in their smartphones inadequately. Therefore, a catastrophe will be imminent for another COVID-19-like zoonosis to come. So, to mitigate, an extensive study was required to address this severe issue, namely, trust concern. This paper has studied the needed by discussing the recently designed and developed health-related applications region by region across the world. Moreover, it has analyzed the benefits and drawbacks. The trust defiance is recognized and inspected from the perspective of an end-user. Some recommendations are advised in the later part of this paper to leverage and collaborate the awareness campaign between the Government, the App Developers and the common individuals.

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Defilading COVID-19: Psychological Factors Associated

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Has COVID-19 changed the workload for primary care physicians? The case of Spain

Has COVID-19 changed the workload for primary care physicians? The case of Spain

Trust Concerns Regarding Health-Related Smartphone Apps in Collecting Personally Identifiable Information Throughout COVID-19-like Zoonosis

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