Hospital Employee Willingness to Work during Earthquakes Versus Pandemics

Charney, Rachel L.; Rebmann, Terri; Flood, Robert G.

doi:10.1016/j.jemermed.2015.07.030

Cited by 39 publications

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“…Factors such as respondents being male are accompanied with higher willingness to participate in natural disasters. The findings are similar to previous studies conducted in Jordan, China and the USA 15 16 25 26. However, having less female health workers who are willing to participate in disasters highlight a need to address this group during health preparedness programme.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…Many studies have established the association between self-efficacy and willingness to participate in disasters 10 15 16. Similarly, this study has identified that self-efficacy plays an important role in the willingness to participate in natural disasters, in influenza pandemic and any type of disasters.…”

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confidence: 63%

“…It is difficult to obtain a 100% participation of HCW even though it is vital in case of disasters. Previous studies suggested that between 65% and 97% of HCWs were willing to participate in a natural disaster, and between 54% and 86% in an influenza pandemic 11 16 20 21. The reason for this difference in the levels of willingness between the two types of disasters is due to the great distinction in their nature.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The questionnaire was developed by the researcher based on information from previous studies and opinions of national and international experts (online supplementary materials). 15–18 The questionnaire was pretested for validity and reliability. The questionnaire was distributed to national and international experts together with questions on the validity of the questionnaire with a scale of 1–4 (1 not relevant to 4 highly relevant).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Factors associated with healthcare workers willingness to participate in disasters: a cross-sectional study in Sana’a, Yemen

2019

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ObjectivesWillingness to participate in disasters is usually overlooked and not addressed in disaster preparedness training courses to ensure health service coverage. This will lead to issues during the disaster’s response. This study, therefore, aims to assess healthcare workers willingness to participate in biological and natural disasters, and to identify its associated factors.DesignThis is a cross-sectional study using a self-administered questionnaire. The questionnaire was distributed to 1093 healthcare workers. The data were analysed using multiple logistic regression with significance level p<0.05. Ethical clearance and consent of the participants were duly obtained.SettingIn three public hospitals that provide tertiary-level healthcare in Sana’a City, Yemen.ParticipantsThere were 692 nurses and doctors (response rate 63.3%) completed the questionnaires.ResultsAlmost half of the participants 55.1% were nurses and 44.9% were doctors. The study found that self-efficacy was associated with willingness to participate in disaster response for any type of disasters (OR 1.319, 95% CI 1.197 to 1.453), natural disasters (OR 1.143, 95% CI 1.069 to 1.221) and influenza pandemic (OR 1.114, 95% CI 1.050 to 1.182). The results further show that willingness is associated with healthcare workers being young, male and having higher educational qualifications.ConclusionSelf-efficacy has been found to be an important factor associated with willingness. Improving self-efficacy through training in disaster preparedness may increase willingness of healthcare workers to participate in a disaster.

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2019

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“…2,3 Due to the surge in demand of medical services, hospitals must appropriately respond to the increase in the number of patients as well as infection control and intensive care facilities in hospitals. During a pandemic outbreak, hospital employees and health care workers provide essential elements for a hospital's medical system to function appropriately, 4,5 since they play a key role in not only safe and sustainable patient care, but also in the controlling of the outbreak. 6 Several previous studies have reported outbreaks of infectious diseases: severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), avian influenza, and Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) can affect the willingness of health care providers to work, [7][8][9][10] which could result in turnovers or health care workers' intention to quit their jobs.…”

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Factors Associated With the Work Intention of Hospital Workers’ in South Korea During the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Outbreak

Jang

You

Lee

et al. 2020

Disaster med. public health prep.

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Objective: This study aims to explore factors associated with the intention to work of hospital workers in the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak in South Korea. Methods: An online self-reported survey was conducted in a tertiary hospital. Respondents were asked to report their perceived threat, perceived risk of infection, evaluation of hospital response, demographics, and job-related factors. Descriptive statistics and multivariate regression analyses were performed. Results: A total of 441 employees participated in this study. Of respondents, 60% were willing to accept their work during an infectious disease outbreak and 12.5% were unwilling to accept the work. In addition, 8% of respondents reported that they had considered quitting their job, 54.4% reported their job was dangerous, and 50.1% of respondents perceived the severity of COVID-19 as high. Perceived threat and effectiveness of hospital response were associated with hospital employees’ intention to work. Conclusions: Hospital workers are at the front line of the COVID-19 outbreak. This study highlighted hospital workers’ perceived effectiveness of organizational response to the outbreak, and perceived threats were found to be important factors for whether they continue to work or not in the fight against the outbreak.

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