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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on enrollment in undergraduate health-related studies in Spain
The aim of this study was to determine whether the pandemic has reinforced the choice of pursuing health-related bachelor’s degrees, and to identify underlying factors that could contribute to that impact. This is a cross-sectional study using an online survey of 2,344 students of nursing, physiothe...
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BioMed Central
2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10214337/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37237295 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04347-5 |
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author | March-Amengual, Jaume-Miquel Cambra-Badii, Irene Pineda Galán, Consolación Busquets-Alibés, Ester Masó Aguado, Montse Ramon-Aribau, Anna Feito Grande, Lydia Comella Cayuela, Agustí Terribas i Sala, Nuria Andrade-Gómez, Elena Martínez-Perez, Naiara Jerez-Roig, Javier |
author_facet | March-Amengual, Jaume-Miquel Cambra-Badii, Irene Pineda Galán, Consolación Busquets-Alibés, Ester Masó Aguado, Montse Ramon-Aribau, Anna Feito Grande, Lydia Comella Cayuela, Agustí Terribas i Sala, Nuria Andrade-Gómez, Elena Martínez-Perez, Naiara Jerez-Roig, Javier |
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description | The aim of this study was to determine whether the pandemic has reinforced the choice of pursuing health-related bachelor’s degrees, and to identify underlying factors that could contribute to that impact. This is a cross-sectional study using an online survey of 2,344 students of nursing, physiotherapy, medicine, psychology and podiatry who started health-related bachelor’s degrees after the COVID-19 outbreak in Spanish higher education institutions. The pandemic influenced the choice of these studies by increasing the desire to help others (33.2%), by increasing citizenship values (28.4%), and by increasing the desire to contribute to improving the situation of the country (27.5%). Women had a significantly greater influence on the increase in social values related to the practice of the profession produced by the pandemic, whereas men and the bachelor’s degree in podiatry were more influenced by salary prospects. An increased desire to help others was significantly higher among women and nursing and medical students. Podiatry and psychology were the degrees were most influenced by the pandemic, as more students decided to pursue them, something they had previously doubted, while in nursing, psychology, and medicine the pandemic reinforced their interest in pursuing the degree the most. Students personally affected by COVID-19 reported being more influenced in reconsidering their professional path and in reinforcing their desire to pursue the health-related studies. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12909-023-04347-5. |
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spelling | pubmed-102143372023-05-27 The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on enrollment in undergraduate health-related studies in Spain March-Amengual, Jaume-Miquel Cambra-Badii, Irene Pineda Galán, Consolación Busquets-Alibés, Ester Masó Aguado, Montse Ramon-Aribau, Anna Feito Grande, Lydia Comella Cayuela, Agustí Terribas i Sala, Nuria Andrade-Gómez, Elena Martínez-Perez, Naiara Jerez-Roig, Javier BMC Med Educ Research The aim of this study was to determine whether the pandemic has reinforced the choice of pursuing health-related bachelor’s degrees, and to identify underlying factors that could contribute to that impact. This is a cross-sectional study using an online survey of 2,344 students of nursing, physiotherapy, medicine, psychology and podiatry who started health-related bachelor’s degrees after the COVID-19 outbreak in Spanish higher education institutions. The pandemic influenced the choice of these studies by increasing the desire to help others (33.2%), by increasing citizenship values (28.4%), and by increasing the desire to contribute to improving the situation of the country (27.5%). Women had a significantly greater influence on the increase in social values related to the practice of the profession produced by the pandemic, whereas men and the bachelor’s degree in podiatry were more influenced by salary prospects. An increased desire to help others was significantly higher among women and nursing and medical students. Podiatry and psychology were the degrees were most influenced by the pandemic, as more students decided to pursue them, something they had previously doubted, while in nursing, psychology, and medicine the pandemic reinforced their interest in pursuing the degree the most. Students personally affected by COVID-19 reported being more influenced in reconsidering their professional path and in reinforcing their desire to pursue the health-related studies. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12909-023-04347-5. BioMed Central 2023-05-26 /pmc/articles/PMC10214337/ /pubmed/37237295 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04347-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research March-Amengual, Jaume-Miquel Cambra-Badii, Irene Pineda Galán, Consolación Busquets-Alibés, Ester Masó Aguado, Montse Ramon-Aribau, Anna Feito Grande, Lydia Comella Cayuela, Agustí Terribas i Sala, Nuria Andrade-Gómez, Elena Martínez-Perez, Naiara Jerez-Roig, Javier The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on enrollment in undergraduate health-related studies in Spain |
title | The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on enrollment in undergraduate health-related studies in Spain |
title_full | The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on enrollment in undergraduate health-related studies in Spain |
title_fullStr | The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on enrollment in undergraduate health-related studies in Spain |
title_full_unstemmed | The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on enrollment in undergraduate health-related studies in Spain |
title_short | The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on enrollment in undergraduate health-related studies in Spain |
title_sort | impact of the covid-19 pandemic on enrollment in undergraduate health-related studies in spain |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10214337/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37237295 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04347-5 |
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