The pandemic of online research in times of COVID-19

Man, Jeroen De; Campbell, Linda; Tabana, Hanani; Wouters, Edwin

doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2020-043866

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“…However, several limitations of our study need to be mentioned. Due to the online approach of our survey and the self-selection of participants [47], there was an uneven distribution of participants from different countries. Given the limited access to internet, only a small number of persons from the African countries and Bangladesh participated in the survey.…”

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“…Online surveys should be followed up or complemented with other study designs such as in-depth qualitative explorations to understand local insights, thinking, and perceptions of the non-literate population. Future studies should use more stringent sampling methods, such as during a nationally representative household survey, specifying the balanced and adequate representation of important demographic groups [47].…”

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Factors Affecting COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance: An International Survey among Low- and Middle-Income Countries

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Vaccination is fast becoming a key intervention against the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted cross-sectional online surveys to investigate COVID-19 vaccine acceptance across nine Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs; N = 10,183), assuming vaccine effectiveness at 90% and 95%. The prevalence of vaccine acceptance increased from 76.4% (90% effectiveness) to 88.8% (95% effectiveness). Considering a 90% effective vaccine, Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, and five African countries (Democratic Republic of Congo, Benin, Uganda, Malawi, and Mali) had lower acceptance odds compared to Brazil. Individuals who perceived taking the vaccine as important to protect themselves had the highest acceptance odds (aOR 2.49) at 95% effectiveness. Vaccine acceptance was also positively associated with COVID-19 knowledge, worry/fear regarding COVID-19, higher income, younger age, and testing negative for COVID-19. However, chronic disease and female gender reduced the odds for vaccine acceptance. The main reasons underpinning vaccine refusal were fear of side effects (41.2%) and lack of confidence in vaccine effectiveness (15.1%). Further research is needed to identify country-specific reasons for vaccine hesitancy in order to develop mitigation strategies that would ensure high and equitable vaccination coverage across LMICs.

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Factors Affecting COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance: An International Survey among Low- and Middle-Income Countries

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“…Also, within a minority of qualitative studies, researchers have mostly adopted inductive, explorative, and descriptive approaches, with the hybrid inductive-abductive analysis by Hennein and Lowe (2020) and Hennein et al (2021) constituting the closest attempt to ours to investigate health care workers’ mental health during COVID-19 deploying an ecological framework. In this study, we aimed to fill these gaps because (a) quantitative approaches may be limited ( De Man et al, 2021 ) while qualitative analyses might provide deeper insights ( Boot & Bosma, 2021 ) into a disruptive and still partially unknown phenomenon, namely, COVID-19; and (b) an integrated JD-R/IGLO analysis can inform multilevel interventions to promote health care workers’ mental health in a pandemic. Therefore, we conducted a deductive qualitative content analysis ( Hsieh & Shannon, 2005 ) to examine COVID-19-related individual-, group-, leader- and organizational-level job demands and resources.…”

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“We All Held Our Own”: Job Demands and Resources at Individual, Leader, Group, and Organizational Levels During COVID-19 Outbreak in Health Care. A Multi-Source Qualitative Study

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Angelis

Mazzetti

et al. 2021

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Background: Interventions tackling COVID-19 impact on health care workers’ mental health would benefit from being informed by validated and integrated assessment frameworks. This study aimed to explore the fitness of integrating the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model and the Individual-Group-Leader-Organization (IGLO) framework to investigate the pandemic’s impact on health care workers’ mental health. Methods: Qualitative data were collected via 21 semi-structured interviews with senior and middle managers and four focus groups with employees (doctors, nurses, health care assistants) from three areas (Department of Emergency, Department of Medicine, Research Institute of Neuroscience) of a large health care institution facing the first wave of COVID-19. NVivo deductive content analysis of text data was performed. Findings: Several COVID-19-related job demands and resources were found at IGLO levels. Individual-level demands included emotional load, while resources included resilience and motivation. Group-level demands included social distancing, while resources included team support and cohesion. Leader-level demands included managers’ workload, while resources included leader support. Organizational-level demands included work reorganization, while resources included mental health initiatives. Conclusions/Application to Practice: Integrating JD-R and IGLO proved feasible, as job demands and resources could be categorized according to the individual, group, leader, and organization framework. The findings expand previous studies by filling the lack of knowledge on how job demands and resources might unfold at different workplace levels during a pandemic. Results provide unit-level evidence for designing and implementing multilevel interventions to manage health care workers’ mental health during COVID-19 and future pandemics. Our findings offer occupational health practitioners a suitable approach to perform workplace mental health assessment activities.

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“…The structure of our cohort with a large majority of medical doctors and low proportion of nurses could have been influenced by the accessibility and the ease of use of our online tool. Other factors such as low interest, lack of time or lack of confidence in understanding scientific research were reported as being barriers in the participation of nurses in medical research [8].…”

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ORCHESTRA project in Romania - a prospective occupational cohort to study the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare workers

Mateș¹,

Calota²,

Staicu³

et al. 2021

Romanian Journal of Occupational Medicine

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ORCHESTRA is a three-year international research project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, led by the University of Verona and involving 26 partners (extending to a wider network of 37 partners) from 15 countries. Romania is partner in ORCHESTRA project and is represented by The National Institute of Public Health. The challenge for the Romanian team is to enroll a prospective cohort of more than 1 000 health care workers and to follow-up, for at least 12 months, the impact of the pandemic at three main levels: mental health, long term consequences of COVID-19 and variation of the immune response in vaccinated. Secondary objectives are: the variation of risk perception during the pandemic, the preventive measures at workplace and how these evolved during the pandemic, vaccination acceptance and reasons of refusal. This paper aims to present a brief overview of the study design in Romania and the cohort description at baseline.

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The pandemic of online research in times of COVID-19

Cited by 73 publications

References 13 publications

Factors Affecting COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance: An International Survey among Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Factors Affecting COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance: An International Survey among Low- and Middle-Income Countries

“We All Held Our Own”: Job Demands and Resources at Individual, Leader, Group, and Organizational Levels During COVID-19 Outbreak in Health Care. A Multi-Source Qualitative Study

ORCHESTRA project in Romania - a prospective occupational cohort to study the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare workers

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