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Gender disparity in telehealth usage in Bangladesh during COVID-19
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Telehealth allows healthcare workers to see patients virtually in locations that were not accessible previously, which has reduced cost and time and saved lives. The research aims to examine gender disparity among telehealth usage during the pandemic in 2020. This study will lev...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8752120/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35036972 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2021.100054 |
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author | Rahman, Saanjaana Amit, Sajid Kafy, Abdulla - Al |
author_facet | Rahman, Saanjaana Amit, Sajid Kafy, Abdulla - Al |
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description | BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Telehealth allows healthcare workers to see patients virtually in locations that were not accessible previously, which has reduced cost and time and saved lives. The research aims to examine gender disparity among telehealth usage during the pandemic in 2020. This study will leverage a timely national experiment to evaluate the users of telehealth across the Bangladeshi population. METHODS: We obtained de-identified data for 200 patients among outpatient telehealth visits from Global Health Data Exchange as it captured telehealth use throughout Bangladesh. RESULTS: The analysis showed that male patients had a higher dependency on telehealth than female patients. 14% of the female patients opted for telehealth visits only with 57% cases of missed doses of medication, compared to males with 20% of them choosing telehealth visits and 29% missing their doses of medication. We found that the youngest age group, 16–25, had the highest dependence on telehealth compared to any other age group, and the lowest dependence was among the oldest age group of 45 years and above. CONCLUSIONS: There was a strong association between telehealth use and gender disparity with p value = 0.02 < 0.05. Longitudinal and geographical data are needed to understand more about the gender disparities and impact in telehealth utilizations. |
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spelling | pubmed-87521202022-01-12 Gender disparity in telehealth usage in Bangladesh during COVID-19 Rahman, Saanjaana Amit, Sajid Kafy, Abdulla - Al SSM Ment Health Article BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Telehealth allows healthcare workers to see patients virtually in locations that were not accessible previously, which has reduced cost and time and saved lives. The research aims to examine gender disparity among telehealth usage during the pandemic in 2020. This study will leverage a timely national experiment to evaluate the users of telehealth across the Bangladeshi population. METHODS: We obtained de-identified data for 200 patients among outpatient telehealth visits from Global Health Data Exchange as it captured telehealth use throughout Bangladesh. RESULTS: The analysis showed that male patients had a higher dependency on telehealth than female patients. 14% of the female patients opted for telehealth visits only with 57% cases of missed doses of medication, compared to males with 20% of them choosing telehealth visits and 29% missing their doses of medication. We found that the youngest age group, 16–25, had the highest dependence on telehealth compared to any other age group, and the lowest dependence was among the oldest age group of 45 years and above. CONCLUSIONS: There was a strong association between telehealth use and gender disparity with p value = 0.02 < 0.05. Longitudinal and geographical data are needed to understand more about the gender disparities and impact in telehealth utilizations. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2022-12 2021-12-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8752120/ /pubmed/35036972 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2021.100054 Text en © 2021 The Authors Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Rahman, Saanjaana Amit, Sajid Kafy, Abdulla - Al Gender disparity in telehealth usage in Bangladesh during COVID-19 |
title | Gender disparity in telehealth usage in Bangladesh during COVID-19 |
title_full | Gender disparity in telehealth usage in Bangladesh during COVID-19 |
title_fullStr | Gender disparity in telehealth usage in Bangladesh during COVID-19 |
title_full_unstemmed | Gender disparity in telehealth usage in Bangladesh during COVID-19 |
title_short | Gender disparity in telehealth usage in Bangladesh during COVID-19 |
title_sort | gender disparity in telehealth usage in bangladesh during covid-19 |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8752120/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35036972 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2021.100054 |
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