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How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted Polish urologists? Results from a national survey
INTRODUCTION: Poland was initially less affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, however, severe restrictions, and health care restructuration have impacted all areas of medicine, including urology. Therefore, we aimed, via an online survey, to examine the impact of the COVID-19...
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Polish Urological Association
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7587496/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33133649 http://dx.doi.org/10.5173/ceju.2020.0252 |
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author | Rajwa, Pawel Przydacz, Mikołaj Zapała, Piotr Wieckiewicz, Gniewko Ryszawy, Jakub Chorągwicki, Dominik Drobot, Rafał B. Radziszewski, Piotr Paradysz, Andrzej Chłosta, Piotr L. |
author_facet | Rajwa, Pawel Przydacz, Mikołaj Zapała, Piotr Wieckiewicz, Gniewko Ryszawy, Jakub Chorągwicki, Dominik Drobot, Rafał B. Radziszewski, Piotr Paradysz, Andrzej Chłosta, Piotr L. |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Poland was initially less affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, however, severe restrictions, and health care restructuration have impacted all areas of medicine, including urology. Therefore, we aimed, via an online survey, to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Polish urologists and urology residents. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Between May 15 and June 6, 2020, 229 (28.63% response rate) urologists and urology residents responded to a 28-question online survey. The questionnaire analyzed basic demographic and professional characteristics, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on physicians' everyday work, mental status as well as private life. We further compared the differences between the selected subgroups. RESULTS: Nearly all (96.5%) responders claimed that the pandemic had a moderate to high impact on their everyday clinical practice with the majority of the residents (62.0%) believing that the COVID-19 pandemic will harm their training. Most responders (86.9%) reported over 25% declines in outpatient clinic consultations and 55.9% claimed that their income dropped over 25%. Only 38.9% wanted telemedicine to permanently replace some of the consultations after the pandemic, with residents being significantly more positive about this modality (51.4% vs. 33.1%; p = 0.01). Interestingly, 79.9% noticed the negative psychological effect of the pandemic on their colleagues, and 57.6% felt increased anxiety, sadness, or stress. CONCLUSIONS: This study revealed the complaints and needs of Polish urologists and urology residents after the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. There was a significantly negative impact on their work, mental health, and private life. |
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spelling | pubmed-75874962020-10-30 How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted Polish urologists? Results from a national survey Rajwa, Pawel Przydacz, Mikołaj Zapała, Piotr Wieckiewicz, Gniewko Ryszawy, Jakub Chorągwicki, Dominik Drobot, Rafał B. Radziszewski, Piotr Paradysz, Andrzej Chłosta, Piotr L. Cent European J Urol Original Paper INTRODUCTION: Poland was initially less affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, however, severe restrictions, and health care restructuration have impacted all areas of medicine, including urology. Therefore, we aimed, via an online survey, to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Polish urologists and urology residents. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Between May 15 and June 6, 2020, 229 (28.63% response rate) urologists and urology residents responded to a 28-question online survey. The questionnaire analyzed basic demographic and professional characteristics, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on physicians' everyday work, mental status as well as private life. We further compared the differences between the selected subgroups. RESULTS: Nearly all (96.5%) responders claimed that the pandemic had a moderate to high impact on their everyday clinical practice with the majority of the residents (62.0%) believing that the COVID-19 pandemic will harm their training. Most responders (86.9%) reported over 25% declines in outpatient clinic consultations and 55.9% claimed that their income dropped over 25%. Only 38.9% wanted telemedicine to permanently replace some of the consultations after the pandemic, with residents being significantly more positive about this modality (51.4% vs. 33.1%; p = 0.01). Interestingly, 79.9% noticed the negative psychological effect of the pandemic on their colleagues, and 57.6% felt increased anxiety, sadness, or stress. CONCLUSIONS: This study revealed the complaints and needs of Polish urologists and urology residents after the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. There was a significantly negative impact on their work, mental health, and private life. Polish Urological Association 2020-09-15 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7587496/ /pubmed/33133649 http://dx.doi.org/10.5173/ceju.2020.0252 Text en Copyright by Polish Urological Association http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License, allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Rajwa, Pawel Przydacz, Mikołaj Zapała, Piotr Wieckiewicz, Gniewko Ryszawy, Jakub Chorągwicki, Dominik Drobot, Rafał B. Radziszewski, Piotr Paradysz, Andrzej Chłosta, Piotr L. How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted Polish urologists? Results from a national survey |
title | How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted Polish urologists? Results from a national survey |
title_full | How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted Polish urologists? Results from a national survey |
title_fullStr | How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted Polish urologists? Results from a national survey |
title_full_unstemmed | How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted Polish urologists? Results from a national survey |
title_short | How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted Polish urologists? Results from a national survey |
title_sort | how has the covid-19 pandemic impacted polish urologists? results from a national survey |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7587496/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33133649 http://dx.doi.org/10.5173/ceju.2020.0252 |
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