Chinese medical students’interest in COVID-19 pandemic

• 作者: Jiu-Zuo Huang Jun-Ping Fan Ming-Zi Zhang Nan-Ze Yu Shu-Yang Zhang Wen-Chao Zhang Xiao Long Xiao-Jun Wang Yang Yang Yu-Ming Chong Yu-Wei Zhang Yuan Xu Yue Teng Zhi-Jin Li
• 来源期刊: 世界病毒学杂志
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: COVID-19 Chinese medical students VOLUNTEER Medical education Public health emergency of international concern
• 年，卷（期）: sjbdxzz_2020,（3）
• 页码范围: 38-46
• 页数: 9页
• 分类号: H31

摘要

BACKGROUND The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)happened in early December and it has affected China in more ways than one.The societal response to the pandemic restricted medical students to their homes.Although students cannot learn about COVID-19 through clinical practice,they can still pay attention to news of COVID-19 through various channels.Although,as suggested by previous studies,some medical students have already volunteered to serve during the COVID-19 pandemic,the overall willingness of Chinese medical students to volunteer for such has not been systematically examined.AIM To study Chinese medical students’interest in the relevant knowledge on COVID-19 and what roles they want to play in the pandemic.METHODS Medical students at Peking Union Medical College were surveyed via a webbased questionnaire to obtain data on the extent of interest in the relevant knowledge on COVID-19,attitude towards volunteerism in the pandemic,and career preference.Logistic regression modeling was used to investigate possible factors that could encourage volunteerism among this group in a pandemic.RESULTS A total of 552 medical students responded.Most medical students showed a huge interest in COVID-19.The extent of students’interest in COVID-19 varied among different student-classes(P<0.05).Senior students had higher scores than the other two classes.The number of people who were‘glad to volunteer’in COVID-19 represented 85.6%of the respondents.What these students expressed willingness to undertake involved direct,indirect,and administrative job activities.Logistic regression analysis identified two factors that negatively influenced volunteering in the pandemic:Student-class and hazards of the voluntary job.Factors that positively influenced volunteering were time to watch COVID-19 news,predictable impact on China,and moral responsibility.CONCLUSION More innovative methods can be explored to increase Chinese medical students’interest in reading about the relevant knowledge on COVID-19 and doing volu