2022
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0271873
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Academic, clinical and personal experiences of undergraduate healthcare students during the COVID-19 pandemic: A prospective cohort study

Abstract: Background Coronavirus disease 2019 has impacted upon the role and safety of healthcare workers, with the potential to have a lasting effect on their wellbeing. Limited research has been conducted during previous pandemics exploring how student healthcare workers are impacted as they study and train for their professional careers. Objective The aim of the current study was to examine the specific impact of COVID-19 on the academic, clinical and personal experiences of healthcare students. Method Undergradu… Show more

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“…Participants accessed the survey using a link to Qualtrics. Qualtrics has been used in several COVID-19-related studies (Czeisler et al, 2021 ; Johnson, 2021 ; McFadden et al, 2022 ). First, informed consent was obtained via Qualtrics.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Participants accessed the survey using a link to Qualtrics. Qualtrics has been used in several COVID-19-related studies (Czeisler et al, 2021 ; Johnson, 2021 ; McFadden et al, 2022 ). First, informed consent was obtained via Qualtrics.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Given that healthcare professionals played a key role in the treatment of COVID-19 cases and healthcare students contributed to the healthcare workforce as part of their clinical placements (McFadden et al, 2022;Whitfield et al, 2020), it is imperative to examine the effects of the COVID-19 Omicron wave on them. Further, burnout has been associated with deficits in three main cognitive functions (executive functions, attention, and memory) (Deligkaris et al, 2014), while depressive symptomatology is considered to be linked to deficits in different aspects of cognition (Goodall et al, 2018).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Unsurprisingly online students’ intrinsic motivation for asynchronous learning was higher than for synchronous learning, relating to a sense of autonomy [ 19 ]. These challenges were intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic: many students’ duties outside the curriculum have increased (e.g., deployment to hospital, obscured boundary between study and life [ 20 ], making it hard for them to stay motivated to study [ 21 , 22 ]. The forced transition to online learning was experienced positively by healthcare students who were undertaking desk-based learning [ 23 ], whereas those in clinical practice experienced it negatively as their practice was interrupted [ 24 ]…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%