Singh P, Singh S, Govindagoudar M, Chaudhry D, Vashist M, Chandra H. Perception of healthcare workers towards ethical aspects of responsiveness of COVID 19 outbreak: A cross-sectional study.
J Family Med Prim Care 2022;
11:60-66. [PMID:
35309618 PMCID:
PMC8930108 DOI:
10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_72_21]
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Abstract
Introduction:
COVID-19 has spread all over the world and most of the countries are still grappled with the Pandemic. Health-care-workers (HCWs) being the frontlines during such pandemics have different beliefs and faiths with regards to ethical aspects of preparations.
Methodology:
In order to study the perception of HCW about ethical aspects of COVID-19, a cross-sectional study was done in a tertiary-care-teaching hospital. A pretested questionnaire was circulated among the participants on a digital platform.
Results:
The HCWs were divided over many statements, like if COVID-19 was more hype than reality (45.77% disagreed and 43.25% agreed). 57.44% of participants either agreed or strongly agreed that the treatment of non-COVID-19 cases suffered due to arrangements made for COVID-19 cases. When the responses received against individual statements were compared with various other socio-demographic variables as a denominator, various interesting results were revealed. There was a significant difference of opinion among the participating HCWs (P < 0.05).
Conclusion:
Differences of the opinions had their relationships to demographic characteristics of the subjects as well as related to perceived knowledge of COVID-19.
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