Responding to natural disasters vs. disease outbreaks: Do emergency medical service providers have different views?

Alwidyan, Mahmoud T; Trainor, Joseph; Bissell, Richard A.

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101440

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“…Participants who perceived that concern for family safety could influence their decision to work during the pandemic are four times less likely to be willing to care for COVID-19 patients. These findings are congruent with previous research studies indicating that family safety was the number one concern for all healthcare professionals during pandemics (14,17,18,20,(28)(29)(30). A recent study by Shi et al found that the most common reason for unwillingness to work during COVID-19 is the concern of infecting family members (27).…”

Section: Predictors Of Willingness To Care For Covid-19 Patientssupporting

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“…An online questionnaire was created explicitly for COVID-19 response willingness and was based on previous research studies (17,18). To ensure face and content validity, the questionnaire was designed and assessed by an expert panel of professors and practitioners in medicine, paramedicine and nursing.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…HCPs remain in the frontline combating the COVID-19 pandemic, risking their lives -and the lives of their families -to provide care to patients (10,11). As such, HCPs potentially have a higher risk of infection, and these risks increase in situations where there is limited availability of personal protective equipment (PPE) and staff shortages, leading to increased exposure duration.…”

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Are Healthcare Professionals in Jordan Willing to Work and Provide Care for Covid-19 Patients?

Alwidyan

Mohammad

Williams

2021

Australasian Journal of Paramedicine

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Introduction The outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has overwhelmed healthcare systems and exposed healthcare providers (and their families) to a high risk of infection and death. This study aimed to assess the willingness of healthcare providers in Jordan to report for duty and provide care to COVID-19 patients. Methods An online questionnaire was developed including questions about demographics, willingness to report to work and provide care to COVID-19 patients, and potential associated factors. Results A total of 253 participants completed the survey (mean age 33.8 years, 58.6% male). The sample included physicians (14.9%), nurses (61.1%) and paramedics (23%). Most participants (96.4%) were willing to come to work during the pandemic, although only 64.7% showed a willingness to provide care to COVID-19 patients. Being male (OR 3.21; 95% CI: 1.75-5.90) or having adequate training on COVID-19 (OR 5.16; 95% CI: 2.32-11.46) were the major predictors for willingness to care for COVID-19 patients, whereas concerns for family safety (OR 0.25; 95% CI: 0.14-0.47) or lack of information about COVID-19 (OR 0.43; 95% CI: 0.23-0.80) were the major predicting barriers for willingness to care for COVID-19 patients. Conclusion Although most participants were willing to report for duty, less than two-thirds were willing to care for COVID-19 patients. Being male and receiving training are associated with willingness; whereas concern for family is associated with less willingness to care for COVID-19 patients.

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Are Healthcare Professionals in Jordan Willing to Work and Provide Care for Covid-19 Patients?

Alwidyan

Mohammad

Williams

2021

Australasian Journal of Paramedicine

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“…But it is also important to note that citizens should be responsible for following government COVID-19 preventative recommendations [ 15 , 16 ]. Most of the existing COVID-19 literature focuses on the actions initiated by public agents, such as health departments and medical agencies [ 17 ], but such an approach largely ignores the important roles the public can play in the governance process of epidemic prevention [ 18 , 19 ].…”

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Six Cs of pandemic emergency management: A case study of Taiwan's initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Liu

2021

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

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“…Emergency response workers such as firefighters must face hazardous risks for example life threats, uncertainty and severe injuries while safeguarding lives and assets of public that affect their performance (Lam et al., 2020). Constant exposure to threatful incidents, either provoked due to human activity for example, fire, bomb explosion, terrorist attack or natural disasters such as earthquake, land sliding, glacial lake outburst floods (Alwidyan et al., 2020) demands high level of commitment, engagement, performance and job‐related resources while putting one's life at risk.…”

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The impact of perceived organizational support and job resourcefulness on supervisor‐rated contextual performance of firefighters: Mediating role of job satisfaction

Rubaca

Khan

2020

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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Drawing on job demands‐resources model, we examined the positive impact of perceived organizational support and job resourcefulness on supervisor‐rated contextual performance of firefighters along with partial mediating effect of job satisfaction. We adopted a two‐wave survey technique to collect matched responses from 245 Pakistani firefighters about perceived organizational support, job resourcefulness and job satisfaction and 3 months later from their immediate supervisors on contextual performance. The results favour the importance of perceived organizational support and job resourcefulness as valuable resources for enhancing job satisfaction and in this way promote literature on job satisfaction. Results also endorsed job satisfaction as a partial mediator between organizational support, job resourcefulness and supervisor‐rated contextual performance of firefighters. We explored the complex motivational mechanism through which perceived organizational support and job resourcefulness affect supervisor‐rated contextual performance of firefighters. Results were consistent with the hypothesized model. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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Responding to natural disasters vs. disease outbreaks: Do emergency medical service providers have different views?

Cited by 21 publications

References 19 publications

Are Healthcare Professionals in Jordan Willing to Work and Provide Care for Covid-19 Patients?

Are Healthcare Professionals in Jordan Willing to Work and Provide Care for Covid-19 Patients?

Six Cs of pandemic emergency management: A case study of Taiwan's initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic

The impact of perceived organizational support and job resourcefulness on supervisor‐rated contextual performance of firefighters: Mediating role of job satisfaction

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