Michael Yü-Chi Wu, Cheryl Tsai-Luen Wu, Naveed Saleem, Mengtong Zhang
{"title":"An Assessment of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on US Physicians’ Acceptance of Telemedicine: An Exploratory Study","authors":"Michael Yü-Chi Wu, Cheryl Tsai-Luen Wu, Naveed Saleem, Mengtong Zhang","doi":"10.1177/09720634231217027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09720634231217027","url":null,"abstract":"Prior to the COVID-19, various issues in ethics, laws, regulations and security risks limited physicians in their ability to deliver medical care via telemedicine. However, in 2020, telemedicine quickly became mainstream when the US government issued a waiver granting the use of telemedicine to reduce COVID-19 transmission. This study examined the US physicians’ acceptance of telemedicine after its sudden wide-scale implementation. The authors developed a survey based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology to assess the US physicians’ intentions and attitudes toward the use of telemedicine in the delivery of medical care. This survey was distributed between March and June in 2021 across several voluntary online physician groups. The survey was validated using factor analysis. The 110 participants who completed this study were all active physicians practising telemedicine in the USA. The majority of the participants were female (93%), between 34 and 59 years of age (93%), had at least 10 years of medical experience (84%) and practised in a city (92%). The behavioural intention to use telemedicine was influenced by performance expectancy ( β = 0.34, p<.001), social influence ( β = 0.34, p<.001), facilitating conditions ( β = 0.14, p<.05) and attitude towards telemedicine use ( β = 0.36, p<.001). Attitude towards telemedicine use was influenced by performance expectancy ( β = 0.60, p<.001), effort expectancy ( β = 0.16, p<.05) and social influence ( β = 0.16, p<.05). In addition, telemedicine experience moderated the influence of performance expectancy on behavioural intention negatively ( β =−0.39, p<.001) and moderated the influence of facilitating conditions on behavioural intention positively( β = 0.27, p<.001). This study found that the physicians’ performance expectancy of and attitude towards telemedicine use were significant predictors of physicians’ acceptance. Social influence from colleagues and administrators also played an essential role in impacting physicians’ acceptance of telemedicine. Physicians’ effort expectancy merely affected their attitude towards telemedicine use. Facilitating conditions—such as the inability to perform physical exams, labs, etc.—only influenced the physicians’ intention to use telemedicine. Finally, the survey data suggested that as physicians gained telemedicine experience, their performance expectancy predicted lower behavioural intention than counterparts with less experience.","PeriodicalId":509705,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139855652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impacts of Online Learning Class During the COVID-19 Pandemic on Student Performance and Their Mental Health Status","authors":"T. Neamhom, Thanathorn Chumprasittichok","doi":"10.1177/09720634231225017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09720634231225017","url":null,"abstract":"As a consequence of the current COVID-19 pandemic, online learning is provided to most undergraduate students. This study aimed to determine the impacts of online learning and factors affecting academic performance and mental health among undergraduate students. This study employed a cross-sectional research survey. An online self-administered questionnaire was distributed to collect data from 219 undergraduate students in June 2020. Twelve items assessed student performance and mental health status and determined any association to online learning elements. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse the data. Moreover, associations between elements of online learning and the 12 items were explored using Chi-square and Kendall’s tau-c tests. The results showed: (a) all students’ academic performances were rated positively as the majority reported their perception level as sometime to always; (b) prevalence of stress, tiredness, anxiety and burnout syndrome were reported at 97.3%, 92.7%, 92.2% and 63.9%, respectively; (c) daily study time played a major factor affecting all mental health statuses and exhibiting a positive relationship; and (d) teaching methods, formative assessment, workload and support equipment significantly influenced relation to student performance. This study provides useful data for university administrators’ decisions concerning implementing online learning courses. Relevant elements of online instruction could be reorganised to reduce risks regarding student achievements and mental health status.","PeriodicalId":509705,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139860677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impacts of Online Learning Class During the COVID-19 Pandemic on Student Performance and Their Mental Health Status","authors":"T. Neamhom, Thanathorn Chumprasittichok","doi":"10.1177/09720634231225017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09720634231225017","url":null,"abstract":"As a consequence of the current COVID-19 pandemic, online learning is provided to most undergraduate students. This study aimed to determine the impacts of online learning and factors affecting academic performance and mental health among undergraduate students. This study employed a cross-sectional research survey. An online self-administered questionnaire was distributed to collect data from 219 undergraduate students in June 2020. Twelve items assessed student performance and mental health status and determined any association to online learning elements. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse the data. Moreover, associations between elements of online learning and the 12 items were explored using Chi-square and Kendall’s tau-c tests. The results showed: (a) all students’ academic performances were rated positively as the majority reported their perception level as sometime to always; (b) prevalence of stress, tiredness, anxiety and burnout syndrome were reported at 97.3%, 92.7%, 92.2% and 63.9%, respectively; (c) daily study time played a major factor affecting all mental health statuses and exhibiting a positive relationship; and (d) teaching methods, formative assessment, workload and support equipment significantly influenced relation to student performance. This study provides useful data for university administrators’ decisions concerning implementing online learning courses. Relevant elements of online instruction could be reorganised to reduce risks regarding student achievements and mental health status.","PeriodicalId":509705,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139800757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Empirical Study of Employees’ Career Attitudes and Organisational Citizenship Behaviour to Ensure Sound Organisational Health: A Structural Equation Approach","authors":"Meha Joshi","doi":"10.1177/09720634231225002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09720634231225002","url":null,"abstract":"In the era of globalisation, a lot of disruptions have brought about radical changes in how businesses operate. This has led to the changing patterns of employer-employee relationships which are important for the health of the organisation. This has called for the need to understand the career attitude of employees, working in the organisations. The purpose of this article is to investigate the relationship between protean career, boundaryless career attitude, organisational mobility preferences and organisational citizenship behaviour (an important parameter of sound organisational health) of Indian millennials. Data from 204 employees, working in multi-national organisations located in Delhi and the NCR region of India, was used to investigate the relationship between the said constructs and their relationship. The study focussed on multi analytical approach using structural equation modelling to study the relationships among the various dimensions. The results of the study show that protean career attitude, boundaryless career attitude and organisational mobility preferences are significantly related to each other. The study would help the organisations to work on designing career coping strategies for the employees to enhance their productivity at work. The study may add some important perspectives to the literature on career already available and may serve as a basis for further enhancing the psychological contract of the current workforce.","PeriodicalId":509705,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139801923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Empirical Study of Employees’ Career Attitudes and Organisational Citizenship Behaviour to Ensure Sound Organisational Health: A Structural Equation Approach","authors":"Meha Joshi","doi":"10.1177/09720634231225002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09720634231225002","url":null,"abstract":"In the era of globalisation, a lot of disruptions have brought about radical changes in how businesses operate. This has led to the changing patterns of employer-employee relationships which are important for the health of the organisation. This has called for the need to understand the career attitude of employees, working in the organisations. The purpose of this article is to investigate the relationship between protean career, boundaryless career attitude, organisational mobility preferences and organisational citizenship behaviour (an important parameter of sound organisational health) of Indian millennials. Data from 204 employees, working in multi-national organisations located in Delhi and the NCR region of India, was used to investigate the relationship between the said constructs and their relationship. The study focussed on multi analytical approach using structural equation modelling to study the relationships among the various dimensions. The results of the study show that protean career attitude, boundaryless career attitude and organisational mobility preferences are significantly related to each other. The study would help the organisations to work on designing career coping strategies for the employees to enhance their productivity at work. The study may add some important perspectives to the literature on career already available and may serve as a basis for further enhancing the psychological contract of the current workforce.","PeriodicalId":509705,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139861591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Study on the Effect of Role Stress, LMX and TMX on Organisational Citizenship Behaviour of Nurses and Their Mediation by Team Commitment","authors":"Prasanjit Dasgupta","doi":"10.1177/09720634231225008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09720634231225008","url":null,"abstract":"Nurses’ job of caring for critically ill patients requires demonstration of behaviour some of which may not be there in their job description. These voluntary behaviours without expectation of reward or favour are referred to as Organisational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB). Patient care is a teamwork, close and cooperative interaction for work within the team and with team leaders, that is, TMX (team-member exchange) and LMX (leader-member exchange), leads to a feeling of commitment known as team commitment and nurses are expected to display OCB to maintain their team membership. Job of nursing imbibes several factors that cause stress to the nurses; these stressors eventually lead to burnout. Stress and burnout harm patient care and particularly on their OCB. In total, 506 nurses from 5 hospitals of Kolkata participated in the study. Result showed that LMX and TMX significantly relate to OCB and nurses’ role stress negatively relates to the OCB of nurses. Team commitments fully mediate effect of nurses’ role stress on OCB of nurses and partially mediates the relationship between LMX and TMX with OCB. This study may be helpful to Healthcare Managers to devise appropriate strategies to enhance the OCB of nurses. Shortcomings of the study and scope for further research discussed.","PeriodicalId":509705,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139859378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Study on the Effect of Role Stress, LMX and TMX on Organisational Citizenship Behaviour of Nurses and Their Mediation by Team Commitment","authors":"Prasanjit Dasgupta","doi":"10.1177/09720634231225008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09720634231225008","url":null,"abstract":"Nurses’ job of caring for critically ill patients requires demonstration of behaviour some of which may not be there in their job description. These voluntary behaviours without expectation of reward or favour are referred to as Organisational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB). Patient care is a teamwork, close and cooperative interaction for work within the team and with team leaders, that is, TMX (team-member exchange) and LMX (leader-member exchange), leads to a feeling of commitment known as team commitment and nurses are expected to display OCB to maintain their team membership. Job of nursing imbibes several factors that cause stress to the nurses; these stressors eventually lead to burnout. Stress and burnout harm patient care and particularly on their OCB. In total, 506 nurses from 5 hospitals of Kolkata participated in the study. Result showed that LMX and TMX significantly relate to OCB and nurses’ role stress negatively relates to the OCB of nurses. Team commitments fully mediate effect of nurses’ role stress on OCB of nurses and partially mediates the relationship between LMX and TMX with OCB. This study may be helpful to Healthcare Managers to devise appropriate strategies to enhance the OCB of nurses. Shortcomings of the study and scope for further research discussed.","PeriodicalId":509705,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139799515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Relationship Between Per Capita Income and Mortality by COVID-19 of Countries","authors":"Claudiomar Matias Rolim Filho, Mathias Schneid Tessmann, Renan Makoto da Silva Kumagawa","doi":"10.1177/09720634231225001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09720634231225001","url":null,"abstract":"This article seeks to investigate the relationship between the per capita income of countries and the deaths resulting from COVID-19 per million inhabitants. For this, information from the twenty-eighth of June 2021 is considered for 186 countries, comprising the five continents. Using the ordinary least squares linear regression technique and data on GDP per capita, human development index, percentage of population with two doses of vaccine, deaths from COVID-19 per million inhabitants, available tests per capita, percentage of population with diabetes, hospital beds available per capita, percentage of the population over 70 years old, population density, democracy index and Gini coefficient, the results show that the countries most vulnerable to the pandemic are those classified as upper-middle-income, with per capita income. Capita, proportion of elderly people and democracy index significantly impact deaths per million inhabitants.","PeriodicalId":509705,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139858409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Relationship Between Per Capita Income and Mortality by COVID-19 of Countries","authors":"Claudiomar Matias Rolim Filho, Mathias Schneid Tessmann, Renan Makoto da Silva Kumagawa","doi":"10.1177/09720634231225001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09720634231225001","url":null,"abstract":"This article seeks to investigate the relationship between the per capita income of countries and the deaths resulting from COVID-19 per million inhabitants. For this, information from the twenty-eighth of June 2021 is considered for 186 countries, comprising the five continents. Using the ordinary least squares linear regression technique and data on GDP per capita, human development index, percentage of population with two doses of vaccine, deaths from COVID-19 per million inhabitants, available tests per capita, percentage of population with diabetes, hospital beds available per capita, percentage of the population over 70 years old, population density, democracy index and Gini coefficient, the results show that the countries most vulnerable to the pandemic are those classified as upper-middle-income, with per capita income. Capita, proportion of elderly people and democracy index significantly impact deaths per million inhabitants.","PeriodicalId":509705,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139798533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Help, I May Have to Go Home…’ Leaving the Hospital Not Too Early and Not Too Late: Optimising the Discharge Process","authors":"Inge van Son, Onno R. Guicherit, A. Lombarts","doi":"10.1177/09720634231222984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09720634231222984","url":null,"abstract":"Hospital discharge is a complex matter. For patients it often involves insecurity; for hospitals, efficiency plays a major role. The consequences include uncertainty and anxiety among patients, unnecessary readmissions and rising costs for hospitals. Like in hotels where the check-out is the last part of the guest journey, the hospital discharge is crucial for, among other things, image-building. Improving the hospital discharge procedure contributes to a better patient experience and quality of life, word-of-mouth advertising, efficiency and costs for the hospital. In this preliminary study, the hospital discharge in a cancer clinic was studied. It was assumed that the hospital discharge went according to a protocol and a fixed procedure and to everyone’s satisfaction. In order to verify this, the procedure was examined and compliance with the protocol was checked. Amongst others, it became clear that patients experienced the planning of the hospital discharge as unstructured and improvised as there seemed to be no clear moment for discharge. On the staff side, the main focus was on the administrative burden of discharge. Furthermore, a clear coordination and division of tasks between the doctors and nurses was lacking. Hotel management check-out procedures are suggested to improve hospital discharges.","PeriodicalId":509705,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140466066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}