COVID-19 Vaccination Did Not Change the Personal Protective Behaviors of Healthcare Workers in China

Personal protective behaviors of healthcare workers (HCWs) and dynamic changes in them are known to play a major role in the hospital transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). In this study, 1,499 HCWs in Chinese hospitals completed an online survey about their knowledge on SARS-CoV-2 transmission and their personal protective behaviors before and after coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination. Of all the respondents, 89% were vaccinated at the time of the survey and 96% believed that the vaccine was effective or highly effective. Further, 88% of the vaccinated HCWs expressed that they would get revaccinated if the vaccination failed. Compared with HCWs with a lower education level, those with a higher education level had less fear of being infected with SARS-CoV-2 and reported a lower negative impact of the pandemic on how they treated patients. Physicians and nurses were willing to believe that short-range airborne and long-range fomite are possible transmission routes. HCWs with a higher education level had a better knowledge of COVID-19 but worse personal protective behaviors. The fact that HCWs with a longer work experience had worse personal protective behaviors showed that HCWs gradually relax their personal protective behaviors over time. Moreover, vaccination reduced the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on how the HCWs treated patients. Importantly, the survey revealed that after vaccination, HCWs in China did not relax their personal protective behaviors, and it may bring a low potential risk for following waves of variant virus (e.g., delta).

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Validating the technology-assisted supplemental work scale (TASW)

Corporate Ownership and Control ◽

10.22495/cocv12i2c4p7 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 475-481

Author(s):

Kajal Kotecha ◽

Wilfred Isioma Ukpere ◽

Madelyn Geldenhuys

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Quantitative Research ◽

Online Survey ◽

Negative Impact ◽

Working Hours ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Research Approach ◽

Information Communication Technologies ◽

Information Communication ◽

The Impact

The traditional advantage of using Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) to enhance work flexibility also has a drawback of enabling academics to continue working even after regular working hours. This phenomenon has been referred to as technology-assisted supplemental work (TASW). Although TASW enhances academics’ work productively, they also have a negative impact on their family-life. The impact TASW has on academics and on higher education institutions can be understood by measuring the phenomenon properly by using a reliable and valid scale. The aim of this study is too validate a newly developed TASW scale by Fenner and Renn (2010). This study adopted a quantitative research approach and used an online survey to gather data. The sample included academic from a higher education in South Africa (n = 216). The results indicate that the TASW is a valid and reliable measure of technology among the sample of South African academics.

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Ecological and/or Nutritional Scores for Food Traffic-Lights: Results of an Online Survey Conducted on Pizza in France

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su14010247 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 247

Author(s):

Stéphan Marette

Keyword(s):

Online Survey ◽

Negative Impact ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Global Score ◽

Dominant Effect ◽

Traffic Lights ◽

Red Color ◽

Before And After ◽

Nutritional Score ◽

Open Question

Understanding the hierarchy for consumers between different labels signaling various characteristics defining food sustainability is still an open question. A web survey was conducted in France to examine how providing different scores about the environment and/or nutrition could influence purchase intents for one pizza. 1200 participants were recruited in France in April 2021. They were asked about their purchase intents for one pizza, before and after seeing nutritional and/or ecological scores associated with colors going from green to red. A Global-Score synthetizing both nutritional and ecological dimensions was also tested. The results show that the appearance of scores and colors significantly affect the purchase intents for this pizza. Indeed, for each type of score (namely nutritional, ecological or global), the dominant effect comes from the reduction in purchase intents related to the red color, although green or yellow colors also change purchase intents but to a lesser extent. With the red color, the nutritional score leads to more significant decreases in purchasing intents than the ones related to the ecological score or the Global-Score. With an additional round, the appearance of another score complementing the alternative one underlines that the negative impact of the red color for one score on purchase intents is not outweighed by the positive impact of the green color for the other score.

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Mental, Physical and Socio-Economic Status of Adults Living in Spain during the Late Stages of the State of Emergency Caused by COVID-19

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph19020854 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 854

Author(s):

Elisabet Sánchez-Rodríguez ◽

Alexandra Ferreira-Valente ◽

Filipa Pimenta ◽

Antonella Ciaramella ◽

Jordi Miró

Keyword(s):

Online Survey ◽

Negative Impact ◽

Economic Status ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

The State ◽

Negative Effects ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

State Of Emergency ◽

Socio Economic Status ◽

Late Stages

Research has shown that the confinement measures implemented to curb the spread of COVID-19 can have negative effects on people’s lives at multiple levels. The objective of this cross-sectional study was to better understand the mental, physical, and socio-economic status of adults living in Spain during the late stages of the state of emergency caused by COVID-19. Five hundred and forty-four individuals responded to an online survey between 3 June and 30 July 2020. They were asked to report data about their mental and physical health, financial situation, and satisfaction with the information received about the pandemic. Means, percentages, t-test, ANOVAs, and logistic regressions were computed. A third of the participants reported symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress, and worries about their health and the future. Participants also described mild levels of fatigue and pain during lockdown (66%), and a reduction in household income (39%). Respondents that were female, younger, single, and with lower levels of education reported experiencing a greater impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The data showed that the negative effects of lockdown were present in the late stages of the state of emergency. The findings can be used to contribute to the development of programs to prevent or mitigate the negative impact of confinement measures.

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Student engagement in Higher Education, age and parental education level

Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas) ◽

10.1590/1982-0275202138e200020 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 38 ◽

Author(s):

Filomena COVAS ◽

Feliciano Henriques VEIGA

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Student Engagement ◽

Parental Education ◽

Online Survey ◽

Education Level ◽

Public Higher Education ◽

Education Students ◽

Parental Education Level ◽

Multidimensional Construct ◽

Cognitive Behavioural

Abstract Within the scope of socio-cognitive theories, student engagement in school has been studied as a multidimensional construct. A four-dimensional perspective was adopted, with the dimensions: affective, cognitive, behavioural and agentic. The objective, to analyse how the variables age and parental education relate to student engagement in school. The sample consisted of 715 Portuguese public Higher Education students from the Lisbon area. The data was collected through an online survey, which included the Student Engagement in School: a Four-Dimensional Scale – Higher Education Version. Data analysis not only revealed that students of age 26 or older scored considerably higher results in engagement than younger colleagues, but also highlighted significant differences of engagement in the affective, behavioural and agentic dimensions, depending on parental education. The results, while partially corroborating the revised literature, suggest future in-depth studies.

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ASSESSMENT OF FATIGUE SUSCEPTIBILITY OF THE LUMBAR EXTENSOR MUSCLES AMONGST SMOKES

Biomedical Engineering Applications Basis and Communications ◽

10.4015/s1016237210002055 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 22 (04) ◽

pp. 321-326 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Gideon Praveen Kumar

Keyword(s):

Low Back Pain ◽

Back Pain ◽

Muscle Strength ◽

Cigarette Smoking ◽

Negative Impact ◽

Common Knowledge ◽

Low Back ◽

Negative Effects ◽

Extensor Muscles ◽

Before And After

Background: Smoking has a number of well-documented negative effects on health. The seemingly common knowledge is that smoking causes low back pain. Cigarette smoking is associated with poor physical fitness and reduced muscle strength.1 The specific effects of smoking on the efficacy of the lumbar extensors have been previously investigated where individuals with chronic low back pain often have weaker lumbar extensor muscles.2 Rigorous exercises, however, reverse this weakness. Hypothesis: This study hypothesizes that cigarette smoking is associated with deficits in the lumbar extensor strength that make the back susceptible to mechanical stress and injury. Study Design: Cohort study. Methods: The objective of this study was to determine the isometric lumbar extensor strength before and after fatigue challenge amongst smokers and nonsmokers. A pre-test and post-test design was used to determine the differences in the lumbar extensor endurance between smokers and nonsmokers. Results: The result of the study confirms a relationship between reduced lumbar extensor strength and cigarette smoking. The negative impact of smoking on lumbar extensors suggests increased susceptibility to lumbar injuries and thereby low back pain. Conclusions: Smokers demonstrated reduced muscle strength and fatigability of the lumbar extensors and they may perhaps be vulnerable to lumbar spine injuries. The study also confirmed that spinal extension exercises increased the endurance time of the lumbar extensor muscles.

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The COVID-19 Vaccine Is Here—Now Who Is Willing to Get It?

Vaccines ◽

10.3390/vaccines9040339 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 339

Author(s):

William D. S. Killgore ◽

Sara A. Cloonan ◽

Emily C. Taylor ◽

Natalie S. Dailey

Keyword(s):

Sex Education ◽

Political Ideology ◽

Healthcare Workers ◽

Online Survey ◽

Vaccination Campaign ◽

Education Level ◽

Race Ethnicity ◽

Frontline Healthcare Workers ◽

The U.S

The U.S. vaccine campaign against COVID-19 began in December 2020, but many individuals seem reluctant to get vaccinated. During the first week of the vaccination campaign, we collected data from 1017 individuals with an online survey to identify factors that were associated with willingness to get the vaccine once it is available. Most participants (55.3%) were willing to get the vaccine, although 46.2% also expressed some fear of the vaccine. Political ideology was by far the most consistent predictor of both willingness to be vaccinated and fear of the vaccine, followed by participant sex, education level, income, and race/ethnicity. Our findings suggest that, for the vaccine campaign to be broadly supported and successful, it will be important for frontline healthcare workers to discuss the role of inoculation for COVID-19 in a manner consistent with each individual patient’s political and sociological worldview.

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Harmful Alcohol Use Among Healthcare Workers at the Beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Kenya

10.21203/rs.3.rs-403929/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

FLORENCE JAGUGA ◽

EDITH KWOBAH ◽

ANN MWANGI ◽

KIRTIKA PATEL ◽

THOMAS MWOGI ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Alcohol Use ◽

Health Care Workers ◽

Healthcare Workers ◽

Online Survey ◽

Negative Impact ◽

Years Of Experience ◽

Factors Associated ◽

Harmful Alcohol ◽

Care Workers

Abstract Background: The on-going COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a major negative impact on public mental health particularly among health care workers. Alcohol use is a common maladaptive response to stress that is associated with adverse health consequences and that could impair productivity in the workplace for the health workforce. The aim of this study is to document the burden and factors associated with harmful alcohol use among health care workers at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya.Methods: This study was a cross-sectional analysis of data obtained from a parent online survey that investigated the prevalence and factors associated with mental disorders among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya. Analyses for this study were conducted to examine the burden and factors associated with harmful alcohol use among a sub-group of 887 participants who completed the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT) questionnaire.Results: Three hundred and eighty nine (43.9%) participants reported harmful alcohol use. The factors significantly associated with increased odds of endorsing harmful alcohol use were: being male (AOR= 1.56; 95% CI=1.14, 2.14; p=0.006), being not married (AOR= 2.06; 95% CI=1.48, 2.89; p<0.001), having 11-20 years of experience as compared to having 20+ years of experience (AOR= 1.91; 95% CI=1.18, 3.12; p=0.009), and being a specialist (AOR=2.78; CI=1.64, 4.78; P=<0.001) or doctor (AOR= 2.82; 95% CI=1.74, 4.63; p<0.001) as compared to being a nurse. Conclusions: A high proportion of health care workers reported harmful alcohol use at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya. Males, the unmarried, those with 11-20 years of experience in the health field, doctors and specialists were more likely to report harmful alcohol use. These findings highlight the need to institute interventions for harmful alcohol use targeting these groups of health care workers in Kenya during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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A Buffering Effect of Mental Toughness on the Negative Impact of Basic Psychological Need Thwarting on Positive Youth Athlete Functioning

The Sport Psychologist ◽

10.1123/tsp.2020-0168 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-10

Author(s):

Keita Kinoshita ◽

Eric MacIntosh ◽

Shintaro Sato

Keyword(s):

Online Survey ◽

Negative Impact ◽

Psychological Needs ◽

Basic Psychological Needs ◽

Mental Toughness ◽

Negative Effects ◽

Youth Athletes ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Canadian Youth ◽

Negative Impacts

Basic psychological needs (BPN) are a construct that helps clarify the psychological mechanism to reach desirable outcomes for youth athletes. When BPN are undermined, people should be less likely to thrive. As mental toughness (MT) can reduce the negative effects of stressors, MT may buffer the negative effects of maladaptive motivation. This study investigated the mediating role of thriving on the relationships between BPN thwarting and important outcomes for youth athletes’ positive functioning. It also examined the buffering effects of MT. One hundred eighty-eight Canadian youth athletes (Mage = 15.51) answered an online survey. The results demonstrated that thriving was a significant mediator, and the indirect relationships were moderated by MT. The indirect associations were nonsignificant for youth with high MT. The findings demonstrated that MT might decrease the negative impacts of BPN thwarting on thriving and important outcomes for young athletes.

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Predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among Egyptian healthcare workers: a cross-sectional study

BMC Infectious Diseases ◽

10.1186/s12879-021-06392-1 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Rehab H. El-Sokkary ◽

Omnia S. El Seifi ◽

Hebatallah M. Hassan ◽

Eman M. Mortada ◽

Maiada K. Hashem ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Work Experience ◽

Healthcare Workers ◽

Online Survey ◽

Initial Step ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Vaccine Hesitancy ◽

Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Attitudes And Practices ◽

To Receive

Abstract Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination has raised concerns about vaccine hesitancy in general and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in particular. Understanding the factors driving the uncertainty regarding vaccination against COVID-19 is crucial. Methods This cross-sectional study was designed to identify the perceptions and attitudes of healthcare workers (HCWs) towards COVID-19 vaccines and determine the predictive factors that affect their willingness to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. An online survey was distributed among HCWs to collect data assessing demographic and general characteristics of the participants and vaccine-related characteristics, including source of information about the vaccine. In addition to items assessing the perception of COVID-19, there were items on COVID-19 vaccines and attitude towards vaccination in general and towards COVID-19 vaccines in particular. Results The participants were classified according to their willingness to take the COVID-19 vaccine as follows: hesitant (41.9%), refusing (32.1%), and willing (26%). Statistically significant differences were observed among the three groups for the perception of COVID-19 vaccines, attitude towards vaccination in general, and COVID-19 vaccines in particular (p < 0.01). Conclusions Although the participants adequately perceived COVID-19 severity, prevention, and COVID-19 vaccine safety, they were widely hesitant or refused to be vaccinated. A multidimensional approach is required to increase the vaccine acceptability rate. Higher income and increased years of work experience are positive predictors of willingness to receive a vaccine. Thus, further studies addressing the scope of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy are warranted as an initial step to build trust in COVID-19 vaccination efforts with continuous monitoring of attitudes and practices of HCWs towards COVID-19 vaccines in the future.

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Psychological impact of repeated epidemic exposure on healthcare workers: findings from an online survey of a healthcare workforce exposed to both SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and COVID-19

BMJ Open ◽

10.1136/bmjopen-2021-051895 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (11) ◽

pp. e051895

Author(s):

Lai Gwen Chan ◽

Pei Lin Lynnette Tan ◽

Kang Sim ◽

Ming Yee Tan ◽

Kah Hong Goh ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Work Experience ◽

Healthcare Workers ◽

Online Survey ◽

Minority Groups ◽

Prior Experience ◽

Tertiary Care ◽

Well Being ◽

Racial Minority ◽

Foreign Born ◽

The Impact

ObjectiveTo measure the psychological well-being of healthcare workers (HCWs) during this COVID-19 pandemic and examine the experiences of the subgroup of participants who were also HCWs during the 2003 SARS epidemic.DesignAnonymous online survey adapted from a similar study conducted during the SARS epidemic, disseminated from July 2020 to August 2020.SettingNine healthcare institutions across Singapore ranging from primary care, community care, tertiary care and specialised referral centres.ParticipantsEmployees working in the participating healthcare institutions.ResultsOf 3828 survey returns, 3616 had at least one completed item on the questionnaire. Majority were female (74.7%), nurses (51.7%), foreign-born (53.2%) and not working in the tertiary care setting (52.1%). The median score on the Impact of Events Scale (IES) was 15 (IQR 23) and 28.2% of the sample scored in the moderate/severe range. 22.7% of the participants were also HCWs during SARS and more than half of them felt safer and better equipped in the current pandemic. 25.2% of SARS HCWs and 25.9% of non-SARS HCWs had moderate/severe IES scores (p=0.904). After adjusting for age, marital status, parity and length of work experience, racial minority groups and living apart from family were independent predictors of high IES regardless of prior SARS epidemic experience. Daily exposure to confirmed or suspect COVID-19 cases increased the odds of high IES for non-SARS HCWs only.Conclusions and relevanceOverall, while 28% of HCWs in our study suffered from significant trauma-related psychological symptoms regardless of prior experience with the SARS epidemic, those with prior experience reported feeling safer and better equipped, finding the workload easier to manage, as well as having more confidence in their healthcare leaders. We recommend for more trauma-informed support strategies for our HCWs especially those from racial minority groups, who are foreign-born and isolated from their families.

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