Willingness and motivations towards volunteering during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional survey among final year medical students in Lagos, Nigeria

Adejimi, Adebola A; Okunade, Kehinde Sharafadeen; Odukoya, Olukemi Ololade; Roberts, Alero Ann; Odugbemi, Babatunde A.; Osibogun, Akin

doi:10.1016/j.dialog.2022.100038

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“…Nine studies exclusively recruited medical students [50][51][52][53][54]61,62,67,69], 3 focused on nursing students [55,60,65], and others included a mix of students from different departments. Thirteen studies were categorized as "high quality" based on the Q-SSP [50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62], while others had scores below 70% [63][64][65][66][67], and some even scored 50% or below [68][69][70]. Detailed assessment results based on the Q-SSP tool are presented in Table S4 in Multimedia Appendix 2 .…”

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Global Rate of Willingness to Volunteer Among Medical and Health Students During Pandemic: Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis

Mahsusi,

Hudaa,

Nuryani

et al. 2024

JMIR Med Educ

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Background During health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, shortages of health care workers often occur. Recruiting students as volunteers could be an option, but it is uncertain whether the idea is well-accepted. Objective This study aims to estimate the global rate of willingness to volunteer among medical and health students in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods A systematic search was conducted on PubMed, Embase, Scopus, and Google Scholar for studies reporting the number of health students willing to volunteer during COVID-19 from 2019 to November 17, 2023. The meta-analysis was performed using a restricted maximum-likelihood model with logit transformation. Results A total of 21 studies involving 26,056 health students were included in the meta-analysis. The pooled estimate of the willingness-to-volunteer rate among health students across multiple countries was 66.13%, with an I2 of 98.99% and P value of heterogeneity (P-Het)<.001. Removing a study with the highest influence led to the rate being 64.34%. Our stratified analyses indicated that those with older age, being first-year students, and being female were more willing to volunteer (P<.001). From highest to lowest, the rates were 77.38%, 77.03%, 65.48%, 64.11%, 62.71%, and 55.23% in Africa, Western Europe, East and Southeast Asia, Middle East, and Eastern Europe, respectively. Because of the high heterogeneity, the evidence from this study has moderate strength. Conclusions The majority of students are willing to volunteer during COVID-19, suggesting that volunteer recruitment is well-accepted.

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Global Rate of Willingness to Volunteer Among Medical and Health Students During Pandemic: Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis

Mahsusi,

Hudaa,

Nuryani

et al. 2024

JMIR Med Educ

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“…It majorly recommended for more effective partnership between volunteers and educational institutions. Adebola, et al (2022) examined the willingness and motivations towards during COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional survey among final year medical students in Lagos, Nigeria. It was primarily a descriptive crosssectional study carried out among final year medical students of two government owned universities in Lagos state.…”

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Volunteering in the Achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Nigeria

Valentine,

Hangeior,

Maureen

et al. 2024

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The emerging issues of governance as well as unforeseen circumstances such as COVID-19 pandemic, Ebola and violent crimes have exposed the inadequacies of state bureaucracy to initiate and execute programmes and projects that will bring about national development. This suggests the place of volunteering in national or global development agenda such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Volunteering represents a critical and vibrant system of the society that drives development using the bottom-top approach. This study therefore seeks to advance the understanding of volunteering in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria. The paper draws on literature-based analytical historical perspective using secondary data. The findings of the study revealed that volunteering has significantly impacted on SDGs in Nigeria specifically in the aspects of good health, gender equality, economic growth and quality education with the exception of climate action. Challenges of volunteering in Nigeria are also unpacked in the paper together with the establishment and functions of Nigerian National Volunteer Service. The implication of the above is that volunteering is sacrosanct in achieving SDGs in Nigeria. Therefore, the paper recommends that: there is need for volunteering system to be strengthened in Nigeria in order to enable it performs optimally. This requires review of volunteering policy together with the functions of Nigerian National Volunteer Service (NNVS) for better performance; volunteer organization should do better in climate resilience by way of sensitizing the citizens on climate resilience mechanisms rather than proving succor after the occurrence of climate incident; and government in conjunction with volunteer organizations and other relevant stakeholders should decentralize security governance for conducive atmosphere to enable volunteers carry out their duties without fear of being attacked etc.

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Global Rate of Willingness to Volunteer Among Medical and Health Students During Pandemic: Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis (Preprint)

Mahsusi,

Hudaa,

Nuryani

et al. 2024

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BACKGROUND During health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, shortages of health care workers often occur. Recruiting students as volunteers could be an option, but it is uncertain whether the idea is well-accepted. OBJECTIVE This study aims to estimate the global rate of willingness to volunteer among medical and health students in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS A systematic search was conducted on PubMed, Embase, Scopus, and Google Scholar for studies reporting the number of health students willing to volunteer during COVID-19 from 2019 to November 17, 2023. The meta-analysis was performed using a restricted maximum-likelihood model with logit transformation. RESULTS A total of 21 studies involving 26,056 health students were included in the meta-analysis. The pooled estimate of the willingness-to-volunteer rate among health students across multiple countries was 66.13%, with an I2 of 98.99% and P value of heterogeneity (P-Het)<.001. Removing a study with the highest influence led to the rate being 64.34%. Our stratified analyses indicated that those with older age, being first-year students, and being female were more willing to volunteer (P<.001). From highest to lowest, the rates were 77.38%, 77.03%, 65.48%, 64.11%, 62.71%, and 55.23% in Africa, Western Europe, East and Southeast Asia, Middle East, and Eastern Europe, respectively. Because of the high heterogeneity, the evidence from this study has moderate strength. CONCLUSIONS The majority of students are willing to volunteer during COVID-19, suggesting that volunteer recruitment is well-accepted.

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Willingness and motivations towards volunteering during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional survey among final year medical students in Lagos, Nigeria

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Global Rate of Willingness to Volunteer Among Medical and Health Students During Pandemic: Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis

Global Rate of Willingness to Volunteer Among Medical and Health Students During Pandemic: Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis

Volunteering in the Achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Nigeria

Global Rate of Willingness to Volunteer Among Medical and Health Students During Pandemic: Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis (Preprint)

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