Conducting COVID-19-Related Research in Jordan: Are We Ready?

Ikhmais, Balqis; Hammad, Alaa M.; Qirim, Waleed; Abusara, Osama H.; Ling, Jonathan

doi:10.1017/dmp.2020.437

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“…In terms of research and community service, although regulations from the relevant ministries provide a fairly high degree of flexibility by allowing delays, changes in locations and methods as well as changes in focus to issues related to COVID-19, there have been obstacles in the implementation of research such as laboratory closures, refusal of informants and the rejection of society as a subject of study and community service. The constraints related to research and community service that we found in this study were more on the technical constraints of implementing the activities and in the end, these obstacles could be overcome by making various adjustments and arrangements [41].…”

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Responses and strategies of Indonesian higher education during COVID-19 pandemic

Yusnaini

Lydia

Mulyanto

et al. 2022

IJERE

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<span lang="EN-US">This study aimed to identify the responses and strategies of higher education in Indonesia in dealing with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The data in this study came from several legal frameworks and news issued by relevant ministries as well as regulations and news released by universities which were analyzed to map how universities adapt to the COVID-19 situation. In addition, interview to faculty members, students and administrative staffs were also conducted. This study found that the relevant ministries responded no faster than the responses made by universities. The ministry has provided a series of regulations and also guidelines but unfortunately, the universities have published these things first. This research is an initial study to identify responses, obstacles to providing education, and research and community service in the COVID-19 era. This research is the first to investigate how universities conduct the three main tasks of the university in Indonesia investigating responses at the organizational and individual levels to identify responses and obstacles they find.</span>

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Responses and strategies of Indonesian higher education during COVID-19 pandemic

Yusnaini

Lydia

Mulyanto

et al. 2022

IJERE

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“…It was reported by Ikhmais et al [27] that the readiness of researchers in Jordan to participate in viral research is low, due to barriers including the limited facilities and well-equipped laboratories for viral research and limited knowledge of virology [28 ].…”

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“…This did not help with the interpretation of the findings rather than being a limitation to the conduction of the study. Studies show that questionnaire design choices, such as handling 'I do not know' may impact the level of non-response answers [27]. In addition, it is reported that forcing all questions to be answered affects the level of non-response and thus it is advised to avoid this; likewise, offering an explicit option is also not recommended as these options strongly increase non-response.…”

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Knowledge and Awareness toward Viral Diseases among University Students in Jordan: Spring 2020

Jarrar¹,

Abu-Shqueir²,

Jarrar³

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Background: Little is known about the viral disease knowledge among university students in Jordan. Aims: This study aimed to evaluate the knowledge towards the nature of viruses and viral diseases among university students in Jordan. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in May-September 2020, focused on students attending eleven colleges from three universities in Jordan. Students were asked to answer an online survey comprising 48-closed ended questions measuring the knowledge toward the viruses and viral diseases. Results: One thousand three hundred nine students responded to the questionnaire. Only 36.7% of the respondents informed that they had the chance to study about viruses and viral diseases during university lectures. The finding revealed that 20.63% of the respondents think that the virus is a living organism and 39.9% of the students correctly answered that the viruses cannot reproduce on the nonliving surfaces. On the other hand, more than one third of the participants approved that viruses are not sensitive to antibiotics treatment. Moreover, only 9.7% of the respondents were able to name of the scientist who discovered the virus. Regarding the viral diseases, 36.1% of the participants were aware that human papilloma virus causes cancer, while only 7.7% were aware that any of the viral hepatitis, herpes or human papilloma viruses can develop to cancer. Almost half of the students answered correctly that SARS-cov2 infects both humans and some animal species and HIV virus can be transmitted through intersexual course. Additionally, 54.7% of the students believe that vaccination is the best protection method to human from viral diseases. Lastly, 42.1% of the respondents were aware that viruses can be invested in several scientific fields. Conclusion: It is concluded that the university students in Jordan have a poor knowledge toward viruses and viral diseases with low exposure to virology education. It is urgently suggested to improve the knowledge toward viral diseases at all levels of education through increasing the virology courses and lectures in the educational institutions with more intensifying improvement in the health colleges.

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“…No pseudovirus-based studies are being or have been performed in Jordan. To our knowledge, there are no basic virology laboratories where viruses are being studied, produced and stored in the country's academic institutions [11]. Despite the remarkably few numbers of basic virologists and immunologists in Jordanian universities and research centers, we believe that the problem of lack of basic virology and immunology research in the country is more than lack of facilities and resources.…”

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Obstacles in the road of biomedical research on COVID-19 in Jordan: Poor funding and beyond

2022

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Since the spread of COVID-19, dedicated researchers from all over the world worked round the clock to unveil the identity of the new virus and find ways to bring the deadly pandemic to an end. Basic science virologists revealed facts about the viral life cycle, cell entry, replication, and emerging variants. Epidemiologists carefully tracked the disease's transmission dynamics. Immunologists studied detailed immune response to infection. Pharmacologists performed drug design and drug repurposing studies. Biotechnologists designed and developed vaccines and efficient diagnostic techniques. Physicians and pathologists investigated symptoms and pathogenesis of infection and developed therapeutic management strategies to help rescue critical cases. In addition, many case reports and clinical trials have been performed, and many other social and economic aspects of the pandemic have been studied.The flood of research articles related to COVID-19 has been very difficult to track with thousands of articles being published at an accelerated rate in a short time. By December 20, 2021, in terms of basic science and medical research, searching "COVID-19" at PubMed returns 211 708 publications, while "SARS CoV-2" returns 133 073 results [1].This breathtaking speed of the medical research response to the pandemic has come with mixed consequences. On the positive side, there has been a greater provision of open access to COVID-19 studies, increased institutional collaboration, expedited ethical approvals of new studies, and prompter use of preprints. On the negative side, time pressure, along with inadequate infrastructure, amplified the problems of research waste due to poor questions, design and performance, lack of or poor reporting of results, and other redundancies [2].

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Conducting COVID-19-Related Research in Jordan: Are We Ready?

Cited by 6 publications

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Responses and strategies of Indonesian higher education during COVID-19 pandemic

Responses and strategies of Indonesian higher education during COVID-19 pandemic

Knowledge and Awareness toward Viral Diseases among University Students in Jordan: Spring 2020

Obstacles in the road of biomedical research on COVID-19 in Jordan: Poor funding and beyond

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