Volunteerism during humanitarian crises: a practical guide

Bailey, Heatherlee; Kaplan, Lewis J.

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“…Humanitarian crises may be natural or man-made ( 1 , 2 ). The current war in Ukraine is a humanitarian crisis that has inspired medical and nonmedical individuals to render aid.…”

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Providing Remote Aid During a Humanitarian Crisis

Kaplan,

Levin,

Yelon

et al. 2023

Critical Care Explorations

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Humanitarian crises create opportunities for both in-person and remote aid. Durable, complex, and team-based care may leverage a telemedicine approach for comprehensive support within a conflict zone. Barriers and enablers are detailed, as is the need for mission expansion due to initial program success. Adapting a telemedicine program initially designed for critical care during the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 pandemic offers a solution to data transfer and data analysis issues. Staffing efforts and grouped elements of patient care detail the kinds of remote aid that are achievable. A multiprofessional team-based approach (clinical, administrative, nongovernmental organization, government) can provide comprehensive consultation addressing surgical planning, critical care management, infection and infection control management, and patient transfer for complex care. Operational and network security create parallel concerns relevant to avoid geolocation and network intrusion during consultation. Deliberate approaches to address cultural differences that influence relational dynamics are also essential for mission success.

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“…Humanitarian crises may be natural or man-made ( 1 , 2 ). The current war in Ukraine is a humanitarian crisis that has inspired medical and nonmedical individuals to render aid.…”

Section: To the Editormentioning

confidence: 99%

Providing Remote Aid During a Humanitarian Crisis

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Levin,

Yelon

et al. 2023

Critical Care Explorations

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“…Prosocial motivation may be a component of student volunteering; student volunteers may be more engaged with their local communities than students who do not volunteer [ 35 ]. The choice to volunteer as a medical provider during a crisis may also be due to an individual’s altruistic tendencies, in addition to the desire to impact local spaces [ 36 ]. Notably, institutions including the Association of American Medical Colleges emphasize community outreach and volunteerism, promoting these behaviors in medical student populations [ 37 , 38 ].…”

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Motivation to Impact: Medical Student Volunteerism in the COVID 19 Pandemic

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Objective Volunteerism represents an important mechanism to promote resilience, empathy, and general well-being in medical students, a group that stands to benefit. Medical students report feelings of fatigue, burnout, exhaustion, and stress that correlates with poor academic performance, and significant decline in empathy over the 3 rd year of both MD and DO programs. Volunteer motivations have been shown to mediate participant well-being. The relationship between medical student volunteer motivations and specific outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic has not been addressed. Methods We characterized features of medical student volunteers during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, including volunteering motivation using the Volunteer Functions Inventory, the types of activities in which they participated, and the physical, psychosocial, and emotional outcomes they experienced following volunteering. Results Altruistic and humanitarian values–centric motivation predicts positive volunteering outcomes including increased resilience, ability to deal with disappointment and loss, and ability to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. Values-centric motivation also increases volunteer empathy independent of educational stage. Values-centric participants were more likely to select volunteering activities with patient contact, which promotes student empathy and resilience. Conversely, career-centric motivation does not predict positive outcomes. These students are more likely to engage in research-oriented activities. Conclusions The efficacy of integrating volunteerism into medical school curricula may be limited by professional pressure that manifests as career-oriented motivation. We propose that practical integration should promote altruistic and humanitarian values–centric participant orientation to the volunteering process, which is associated with enhanced recruitment, preservation of empathy, and additional positive volunteering outcomes of interest.

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“…In recent years, volunteerism has been widely spread among Chinese people, especially young people ( Zhang et al, 2021 ; Yang et al, 2022 ). Voluntary service greatly benefits people in need and society ( Liu et al, 2020 ; Bailey and Kaplan, 2022 ). Taking the prevention and control of the outbreak of pneumonia as an example, hundreds of thousands of volunteers have played an active role in the COVID-19-stricken areas.…”

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Social responsibility and subjective well-being of volunteers for COVID-19: The mediating role of job involvement

Cheng

Zhang

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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AimOur study aimed to investigate the effect of social responsibility on the subjective well-being of volunteers for COVID-19 and to examine the mediating role of job involvement in this relationship.BackgroundNowadays, more and more people join volunteer service activities. As we all know, volunteer work contributes to society without any return. Volunteers often have a strong sense of social responsibility and reap subjective well-being in their dedication. Although research shows that social responsibility will drive them to participate in volunteer work actively, it is less clear whether job involvement will impact their subjective well-being.MethodsThe data were collected in the precaution zone in Shanghai, China, from April to May 2022. A sample of 302 volunteers for COVID-19 completed the social responsibility scale, subjective well-being scale and job involvement scale in the form of an electronic questionnaire on their mobile phones. A structural equation model was adopted to verify the research hypotheses.ResultsSocial responsibility was significantly and positively related to volunteers’ subjective well-being and job involvement (p < 0.05). Job involvement fully mediates the relationship between volunteers’ social responsibility and subjective well-being.ConclusionSocial responsibility is critical to predicting volunteers’ subjective well-being. Job involvement plays an intervening mechanism in explaining how social responsibility promotes volunteers’ subjective well-being.

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Volunteerism during humanitarian crises: a practical guide

Cited by 6 publications

References 19 publications

Providing Remote Aid During a Humanitarian Crisis

Providing Remote Aid During a Humanitarian Crisis

Motivation to Impact: Medical Student Volunteerism in the COVID 19 Pandemic

Social responsibility and subjective well-being of volunteers for COVID-19: The mediating role of job involvement

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