Research Activity among Academic Medical Staff during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Marrakesh

Adarmouch, Latifa; Sebbani, Majda; Amine, Mohamed

doi:10.1155/2020/6648406

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“…Another impact of this pandemic on these institutions could be a disruption of the preexisting research activity. 21…”

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“…In our study, 36.4% of responders thought that the research activity had markedly decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the reasons for this recession were thought by majority (39%) due to a shift of interest in research to COVID-19 rather than diabetes per se. On the other side, a study was conducted by Adarmouch et al 21 in which an online survey among faculty members explored the COVID-19-related research activity, as well as the impact of the pandemic on preexisting research, related challenges, and coping strategies; 58.2% of respondents reported conducting COVID-19-related research, while 40% reported that routine research activities were suspended as a result of the pandemic. Major challenges to research in this context were the clinical activity workload, limited access to patients, and research personnel shortage.…”

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Pediatric Diabetes Services in Arab Countries during the First 6 Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Alsaffar

Abdullah

Ali

et al. 2022

Journal of Diabetes and Endocrine Practice

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Introduction The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic had an impact on different health services due to the lockdowns, curfews, or reducing provision of some clinical services to infection control. Aims This study looked at the impact of the pandemic on the pediatric diabetes services in Arab countries during the first 6 months of pandemic. Methods and Material An online survey using SurveyMonkey was e-mailed to the pediatric endocrine consultants practicing in Arab countries. The survey was active for the last 2 weeks of August 2020. Results Responses received from 34 consultants. Most responses were from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Oman. 18% of consultants have more than 500 pediatric patients with type-1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) under each of their care. A quarter of responding consultants had suspended their clinics completely during the pandemic period. The median number of children live with diabetes used to be seen in diabetes clinics has dropped significantly from 22 to only 4 patients per week during the pandemic. Half of respondents fed back those virtual clinics were useful. The number of elective and urgent admissions during the studied period were less than before the pandemic. A total of 17.6% of responders reported an increased incidence of Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) during the pandemic. Also, 36.4% thought the research activity had markedly decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Conclusion The pandemic has led to reducing the number of patients attending the diabetes clinic in Arab countries. However, virtual clinics and tele-consultations emerged evidently during the pandemic. It is expected to continue using the virtual clinics when the pandemic is over.

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“…Another impact of this pandemic on these institutions could be a disruption of the preexisting research activity. 21…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pediatric Diabetes Services in Arab Countries during the First 6 Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Alsaffar

Abdullah

Ali

et al. 2022

Journal of Diabetes and Endocrine Practice

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“…Across all articles reviewed, online questionnaires were the most commonly applied method of data collection. Online questionnaires were used (a) as a single datacollection method in eight studies (Adarmouch et al, 2020;Aubry et al, 2021;Camerlink et al, 2021;Guintivano et al, 2021;Kappel et al, 2021;Myers et al, 2020;Ramvilas et al, 2021;Stamp et al, 2021) and (b) in conjunction with other data sources in two studies that included email exchanges, mentor's notes, and papers co-authored by the mentor and doctoral researchers, as well as their perceptions of the effectiveness of the mentoring programme or website analytics and post-conference surveys (Raby and Madden, 2021). One of the papers involved data collection in the form of documents posted to an openaccess preprint repository for social sciences (Cui et al, 2022).…”

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“…All other studies involved collecting data from human participants. The number of participants per study varied from small (e.g., 11 participants in and medium (e.g., 55 participants in Adarmouch et al, 2020) to large (e.g., 4535 in Myers et al, 2020). The majority of the authors drew on data that were collected from researchers at different academic ranks but emphasising the experiences of ECRs (Aubry et al, 2021;Camerlink et al, 2021;Guintivano et al, 2021;Kappel et al, 2021;Stamp et al, 2021).…”

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“…Research activity When discussing researcher activities, there was a tendency to draw mostly on the negative effects of the pandemic (e.g., . There is evidence on the strategies that ECRs use to cope with existing challenges (e.g., adapting quickly to remote work and using communication technologies; Adarmouch et al, 2020) and proposed policies that they perceived to be potentially effective in mitigating negative impacts now and in the future (Aubry et al, 2021;Guintivano et al, 2021). The various disruptions to usual research practices represented a major emphasis across studies.…”

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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on early career researcher activity, development, career, and well-being: the state of the art

Lokhtina

Castelló

Lambrechts

et al. 2022

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Purpose This paper aims to identify the documented effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on early career researcher (ECR) activity, development, career prospects and well-being. Design/methodology/approach This is a systematic literature review of English language peer-reviewed studies published between 2020 and 2021, which provided empirical evidence of the impact of the pandemic on ECR activity and development. The search strategy involved online databases (Scopus, Web of Science and Overton); well-established higher education journals (based on Scopus classification) and references in the retained articles (snowballing). The final sample included 11 papers. Findings The evidence shows that ECRs have been affected in terms of research activity, researcher development, career prospects and well-being. Although many negative consequences were identified, some promising learning practices have arisen; however, these opportunities were not always fully realised. The results raise questions about differential effects across fields and possible long-term consequences where some fields and some scholars may be worse off due to priorities established as societies struggle to recover. Practical implications There is a need for revised institutional and national policies to ensure that sufficient measures are implemented to support ECRs’ research work in a situation where new duties and chores were added during the pandemic. Originality/value This paper provides insights into the impacts of the initial societal challenges of the pandemic on ECRs across disciplines that may have long-lasting effects on their academic development and well-being.

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Researchers’ strategies to cope with the covid-19 impact on their activity

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This study aims to characterize the strategies researchers used to cope with Covid-19 impact and to explore the relationship between those strategies, researchers’ characteristics and the pandemic impact in their lives. 721 researchers, proportionally distributed among three Spanish regions, answered an online survey on the pandemic impact on their activity. Scales referred to social support, productivity, research tasks, working conditions, and work and personal life balance. An open-ended section was included to collect the strategies they used to cope with the pandemic consequences. 1528 strategies were content analysed and categorised based on their purposes and related to the rest of the impact variables. Results show the predominance of some strategies for the whole sample both at the work level, such as organizing work duties and plans, and at the personal level, such as maintaining life-work balance and improving personal well-being. Results stress to what extent a strategic approach contributed to minimize contextual issues or constraints even in an extreme situation as the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown. A non-strategic approach, consisting of just reacting emotionally or dropping research, was the less effective way to maintain interest in research, sustained work and productivity and to warrant work-life balance. Developing a strategic approach was easier for those without caring responsibilities and for men. Women in our study, especially with caring responsibilities, had reduced opportunities to continue with their careers during the pandemic. No evidence of institutional strategies supporting researchers to cope with the situation was found.

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Research Activity among Academic Medical Staff during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Marrakesh

Cited by 12 publications

References 32 publications

Pediatric Diabetes Services in Arab Countries during the First 6 Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Pediatric Diabetes Services in Arab Countries during the First 6 Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on early career researcher activity, development, career, and well-being: the state of the art

Researchers’ strategies to cope with the covid-19 impact on their activity

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