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COVID-19 Preparedness and Response: Validation of a Rapid Assessment Tool to Evaluate Priorities of Health Workers at the Grassroots Level
Since the initial phases of the COVID-19 outbreak, international recommendations for disease control have been readily available. However, blind implementation of these recommendations without grassroot-level support could result in public distrust and low adherence. This study evaluated the use of...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8277076/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34268282 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.562600 |
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author | Tran, Bach Xuan Hoang, Chi Linh Nguyen, Nguyen Thao Thi Le, Huong Thi Pham, Hai Quang Hoang, Men Thi Nguyen, Tu Huu Latkin, Carl A. Ho, Cyrus S. H. Ho, Roger C. M. |
author_facet | Tran, Bach Xuan Hoang, Chi Linh Nguyen, Nguyen Thao Thi Le, Huong Thi Pham, Hai Quang Hoang, Men Thi Nguyen, Tu Huu Latkin, Carl A. Ho, Cyrus S. H. Ho, Roger C. M. |
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description | Since the initial phases of the COVID-19 outbreak, international recommendations for disease control have been readily available. However, blind implementation of these recommendations without grassroot-level support could result in public distrust and low adherence. This study evaluated the use of a public health priorities survey to rapidly assess perceptions of local health workers. A cross-sectional study using a web-based survey was conducted among 5,847 health workers and medical students from January to February 2020 to evaluate the level of prioritization of various public health measures. Measures with the highest levels of prioritization were “Early prevention, environmental sanitation, and improvement of population health” and “Mobilization of community participation in disease control,” which were concordant with policies implemented by the Vietnamese government. This study also demonstrated a high level of internal validity among survey items and shared ranking of priorities among all occupational groups. The use of this public health priorities survey was found to be effective in identifying priorities as identified by grassroots health workers to provide real-time feedback to the national government. However, future iterations of this survey should consider limiting the use of each prioritization score to ensure that responses represent the reality of source limitations and consider focusing on medical professionals and community workers due medical students' limited experience with Vietnam's healthcare infrastructure. |
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spelling | pubmed-82770762021-07-14 COVID-19 Preparedness and Response: Validation of a Rapid Assessment Tool to Evaluate Priorities of Health Workers at the Grassroots Level Tran, Bach Xuan Hoang, Chi Linh Nguyen, Nguyen Thao Thi Le, Huong Thi Pham, Hai Quang Hoang, Men Thi Nguyen, Tu Huu Latkin, Carl A. Ho, Cyrus S. H. Ho, Roger C. M. Front Public Health Public Health Since the initial phases of the COVID-19 outbreak, international recommendations for disease control have been readily available. However, blind implementation of these recommendations without grassroot-level support could result in public distrust and low adherence. This study evaluated the use of a public health priorities survey to rapidly assess perceptions of local health workers. A cross-sectional study using a web-based survey was conducted among 5,847 health workers and medical students from January to February 2020 to evaluate the level of prioritization of various public health measures. Measures with the highest levels of prioritization were “Early prevention, environmental sanitation, and improvement of population health” and “Mobilization of community participation in disease control,” which were concordant with policies implemented by the Vietnamese government. This study also demonstrated a high level of internal validity among survey items and shared ranking of priorities among all occupational groups. The use of this public health priorities survey was found to be effective in identifying priorities as identified by grassroots health workers to provide real-time feedback to the national government. However, future iterations of this survey should consider limiting the use of each prioritization score to ensure that responses represent the reality of source limitations and consider focusing on medical professionals and community workers due medical students' limited experience with Vietnam's healthcare infrastructure. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-06-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8277076/ /pubmed/34268282 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.562600 Text en Copyright © 2021 Tran, Hoang, Nguyen, Le, Pham, Hoang, Nguyen, Latkin, Ho and Ho. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Tran, Bach Xuan Hoang, Chi Linh Nguyen, Nguyen Thao Thi Le, Huong Thi Pham, Hai Quang Hoang, Men Thi Nguyen, Tu Huu Latkin, Carl A. Ho, Cyrus S. H. Ho, Roger C. M. COVID-19 Preparedness and Response: Validation of a Rapid Assessment Tool to Evaluate Priorities of Health Workers at the Grassroots Level |
title | COVID-19 Preparedness and Response: Validation of a Rapid Assessment Tool to Evaluate Priorities of Health Workers at the Grassroots Level |
title_full | COVID-19 Preparedness and Response: Validation of a Rapid Assessment Tool to Evaluate Priorities of Health Workers at the Grassroots Level |
title_fullStr | COVID-19 Preparedness and Response: Validation of a Rapid Assessment Tool to Evaluate Priorities of Health Workers at the Grassroots Level |
title_full_unstemmed | COVID-19 Preparedness and Response: Validation of a Rapid Assessment Tool to Evaluate Priorities of Health Workers at the Grassroots Level |
title_short | COVID-19 Preparedness and Response: Validation of a Rapid Assessment Tool to Evaluate Priorities of Health Workers at the Grassroots Level |
title_sort | covid-19 preparedness and response: validation of a rapid assessment tool to evaluate priorities of health workers at the grassroots level |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8277076/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34268282 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.562600 |
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