Maryam Yaghoubi; Mohammad Salimi; Mohammad Meskarpour-Amiri; Sayyed Morteza Hosseini_Shokouh
Volume 24, Issue 10 , 2022
Abstract
Background: The increase in the workload of healthcare workers during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has added further responsibilities for their health.
Objectives: This study was conducted to measure the amount and economic value of COVID-19-related absenteeism and presenteeism and ...
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Background: The increase in the workload of healthcare workers during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has added further responsibilities for their health.
Objectives: This study was conducted to measure the amount and economic value of COVID-19-related absenteeism and presenteeism and its affecting factors among physicians, nurses, and paramedics working frontline with COVID-19 patients.
Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in a COVID-19 tertiary central hospital in Tehran, Iran. Totally, 250 hospital staff who were working frontline with COVID-19 patients between October to December 2020 were entered in the study. The samples included 100 physicians, 96 nurses, and 56 paramedics. The Valuation of Lost Productivity Questionnaire was used to measure job characteristics, absenteeism, and presenteeism. The human capital approach was employed for the valuation of absenteeism and presenteeism. Data were analyzed using ordered logistic regression with backward elimination and the removed value of 0.1 in Stata 14.
Results: Based on the results, the COVID-19 infection rate was 14.4% among healthcare workers, 8% among physicians, 18.6% among paramedics, and 18.7% among nursing staff. A significant association was found between the amount of absenteeism and working in intensive units (odds ratio [OR]: 3.511, P=0.000). A higher amount of absenteeism was related to first-time COVID-19 infection among all participants (OR: 4.918, P=0.000). Current smoker staff, in comparison to quitted smoking staff, was 2.995 times more likely to have a higher amount of presenteeism (OR: 2.995, P=0.030).
Conclusion: COVID-19 had a significant effect on both absenteeism and presenteeism of healthcare workers and its amount and value were unequal among physicians, nurses, and paramedics. Policymakers should do their best to minimize the productivity loss of healthcare workers.
Ali Sarabi-Asiabar; Mehdi Jafari; Jamil Sadeghifar; Shahram Tofighi; Rouhollah Zaboli; Hadi Peyman; Mohammad Salimi; Lida Shams
Volume 17, Issue 1 , 2015, Pages 1-6
Abstract
Identifying and employing appropriate learning styles could play an important role in selecting teaching styles in order to improve education.Objectives: This study aimed to determine the relationship between learning styles preferences and gender, educational major and status in first year students ...
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Identifying and employing appropriate learning styles could play an important role in selecting teaching styles in order to improve education.Objectives: This study aimed to determine the relationship between learning styles preferences and gender, educational major and status in first year students at Isfahan University of Medical Sciences.Patients and Methods: A cross-sectional study employing the visual-aural-read/write-kinesthetic (VARK) learning style’s questionnaire was done on 184 first year students of medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, nursing and health services management at Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in 2012. The validity of the questionnaire was assessed through experts’ views and reliability was calculated using Cronbach’s alpha coefficients (α = 0.86). Data were analyzed using the SPSS ver.18 software and x2 test.Results: Out of 184 participants who responded to and returned the questionnaire, 122 (66.3%) were female; more than two-thirds (68.5%) of the enrolled students were at the professional doctorate level (medicine, pharmacy, dentistry) and 31.5% at the undergraduate level (nursing and health services management). Eighty-nine (48.4%) students preferred a single-modal learning style. In contrast, the remaining 95 students (51.6%) preferred multi-modal learning styles. A significant relationship between gender and single modal learning styles (P = 0.009) and between status and learning styles (P = 0.04) was observed.Conclusions: According to the results, male students preferred to use the kinesthetic learning style more than females, while, female students preferred the aural learning style. Knowledge about the learning styles of students at educational institutes is valuable and helps solve learning problems among students, and allows students to become better learners.
