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Willingness of Healthcare Students in Vietnam to Volunteer During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Source :
- Journal of Community Health
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021.
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Abstract
- Healthcare students play an important role in volunteering activity, often addressing staff shortages. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the willingness of students to volunteer in contribution to the pandemic response, especially in Vietnam, has not been thoroughly investigated. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of and factors associated with the willingness of healthcare students to volunteer during the COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam. For this, an online cross-sectional survey was conducted, between June 7th and July 6th, 2021, among healthcare students from 10 fields of study at the largest public university of medicine and pharmacy in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. Of 2032 respondents, 1473 (72.5%) reported that they would be willing to volunteer during the COVID-19 pandemic. More than half of the students reported having a desire to volunteer in non-patient contact activities such as data entry (65.9%) and logistics (57.7%). Whereas less than 50% of the participants were willing to volunteer with activities involving patients. Year of education, study field, educational format, living arrangements, health status self-perception, chronic illness possession, COVID-19 fear level, past volunteering experience in non-healthcare sectors, and COVID-19 prevention and control training course attendance were all associated with a willingness to volunteer. The strongest barriers preventing volunteering included fear for the health of their family and lack of training/knowledge. Conclusively, healthcare students reported a high level of willingness, indicating a positive attitude toward responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Adequate training should be employed to increase the willingness among healthcare students in Vietnam.
- Subjects :
- Volunteers
medicine.medical_specialty
Students, Medical
Health (social science)
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
education
Pharmacy
Health care
Pandemic
medicine
Humans
Pandemics
Volunteer
Volunteering
Original Paper
SARS-CoV-2
business.industry
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Attendance
COVID-19
Possession (law)
Willingness
Cross-Sectional Studies
Vietnam
Family medicine
Public university
Healthcare student
business
Psychology
Delivery of Health Care
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15733610 and 00945145
- Volume :
- 47
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Community Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7958e2ad18f0ea9055cd4c1a10541c92