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COVID-19 Impact Among Spine Surgeons in Latin America

STUDY DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak in spine surgeons in Latin America. METHODS: A questionnaire was sent to Latin American spine surgeons from April 4 to 6, 2020. Surgeon characteristics were recorded. The impact...

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Autores principales: Guiroy, Alfredo, Gagliardi, Martín, Coombes, Nicolas, Landriel, Federico, Zanardi, Carlos, Willhuber, Gastón Camino, Guyot, Juan Pablo, Valacco, Marcelo
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8258821/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32875914
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2192568220928032
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author Guiroy, Alfredo
Gagliardi, Martín
Coombes, Nicolas
Landriel, Federico
Zanardi, Carlos
Willhuber, Gastón Camino
Guyot, Juan Pablo
Valacco, Marcelo
author_facet Guiroy, Alfredo
Gagliardi, Martín
Coombes, Nicolas
Landriel, Federico
Zanardi, Carlos
Willhuber, Gastón Camino
Guyot, Juan Pablo
Valacco, Marcelo
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description STUDY DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak in spine surgeons in Latin America. METHODS: A questionnaire was sent to Latin American spine surgeons from April 4 to 6, 2020. Surgeon characteristics were recorded. The impact of COVID-19 on economic well-being, work, and mental health were also determined. All variables were compared and analyzed. RESULTS: Two hundred four surgeons answered the complete survey; most of them were male (96.6%), the average age was 47.7 years; 58.8% (n = 120) were orthopedic surgeons and 41.2% (n = 84) were neurosurgeons. The majority of the respondents were from Argentina (59.8%, n = 122), followed by Brazil (17.2%, n = 35), Chile (6.4%, n = 13), and Mexico (5.9%, n = 12). Most of the surgeons reported performing emergency procedures only during the pandemic (76.5%, n = 156). Half used telemedicine or online consultation modalities (54.4%, n = 111). The average concern about the financial situation due to the pandemic was 7.53 in a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being the worst scenario). Twenty-two percent (n = 45) of the surgeons had a score over 10 in the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9; scores higher than 10 needs referral to confirm depression diagnosis). Young age and neurosurgery as a specialty were associated with higher PHQ-9 scores. CONCLUSIONS: COVID-19 has an impact in the daily working practice and financial situation of spine surgeons in Latin America. The long-term psychological impact should be taken into consideration to avoid a heavier burden for health care providers.
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spelling pubmed-82588212021-07-16 COVID-19 Impact Among Spine Surgeons in Latin America Guiroy, Alfredo Gagliardi, Martín Coombes, Nicolas Landriel, Federico Zanardi, Carlos Willhuber, Gastón Camino Guyot, Juan Pablo Valacco, Marcelo Global Spine J Original Articles STUDY DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak in spine surgeons in Latin America. METHODS: A questionnaire was sent to Latin American spine surgeons from April 4 to 6, 2020. Surgeon characteristics were recorded. The impact of COVID-19 on economic well-being, work, and mental health were also determined. All variables were compared and analyzed. RESULTS: Two hundred four surgeons answered the complete survey; most of them were male (96.6%), the average age was 47.7 years; 58.8% (n = 120) were orthopedic surgeons and 41.2% (n = 84) were neurosurgeons. The majority of the respondents were from Argentina (59.8%, n = 122), followed by Brazil (17.2%, n = 35), Chile (6.4%, n = 13), and Mexico (5.9%, n = 12). Most of the surgeons reported performing emergency procedures only during the pandemic (76.5%, n = 156). Half used telemedicine or online consultation modalities (54.4%, n = 111). The average concern about the financial situation due to the pandemic was 7.53 in a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being the worst scenario). Twenty-two percent (n = 45) of the surgeons had a score over 10 in the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9; scores higher than 10 needs referral to confirm depression diagnosis). Young age and neurosurgery as a specialty were associated with higher PHQ-9 scores. CONCLUSIONS: COVID-19 has an impact in the daily working practice and financial situation of spine surgeons in Latin America. The long-term psychological impact should be taken into consideration to avoid a heavier burden for health care providers. SAGE Publications 2020-05-12 2021-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8258821/ /pubmed/32875914 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2192568220928032 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work as published without adaptation or alteration, without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Willhuber, Gastón Camino
Guyot, Juan Pablo
Valacco, Marcelo
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