Global impact of COVID-19 on surgeons and team members (GlobalCOST): a cross-sectional study

ObjectivesTo investigate the impact of COVID-19 on the well-being of surgeons and allied health professionals as well as the support provided by their institutions.DesignThis cross-sectional study involved distributing an online survey through medical organisations, social media platforms and collab...

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Published in:BMJ open 2022-08, Vol.12 (8), p.e059873-e059873
Main Authors: Jaffry, Zahra, Raj, Siddarth, Sallam, Asser, Lyman, Stephen, Negida, Ahmed, Yiu, Chi Fung Antony, Sobti, Anshul, Bua, Nelson, Field, Richard E, Abdalla, Hassan, Hammad, Rawad, Qazi, Nadeem, Singh, Bijayendra, Brennan, Peter A, Hussein, Amr, Narvani, Ali, Jones, Adrian, Imam, Mohamed A, Abbas, Ghayur, Adeyeye, Ademola Adetoyese, Althaher, Ahmad Nayef, Arnaout, Firas, Arnaud, Alexis P, Elhadi, Muhammed, Freitas, Ana Vega Carreiro de, Govindarajan, Krishna Kumar, Kale, Sachin Y, Lakshmi, Harish Neelamraju, Nakano, Luis Carlos Uta, Nasir, Abdulrasheed A, Pata, Francesco, Ravichandran, Chandramohan, Roslani, April Camilla, Yau, Edmund Leung-Kai, Zanin, Luiz Fernando Santetti
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Language:English
Subjects:
Anxiety
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Cross-sectional studies
Demographics
Disease transmission
Epidemiology
Global Health
Medical personnel
Mental depression
Mental disorders
Mental health
Nurses
occupational & industrial medicine
Pandemics
Personal protective equipment
Physicians
Questionnaires
Social networks
Surgeons
surgery
Well being
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Summary:ObjectivesTo investigate the impact of COVID-19 on the well-being of surgeons and allied health professionals as well as the support provided by their institutions.DesignThis cross-sectional study involved distributing an online survey through medical organisations, social media platforms and collaborators.SettingIt included all staff based in an operating theatre environment around the world.Participants1590 complete responses were received from 54 countries between 15 July and 15 December 2020. The average age of participants was 30–40 years old, 64.9% were men and 32.5% of a white ethnic background. 79.5% were surgeons with the remainder being nurses, assistants, anaesthetists, operating department practitioners or classified other.Main outcome measuresParticipants that had experienced any physical illness, changes in mental health, salary or time with family since the start of the pandemic as well as support available based on published recommendations.Results32.0% reported becoming physically ill. This was more likely in those with reduced access to personal protective equipment (OR 4.62; CI 2.82 to 7.56; p
ISSN:2044-6055
2044-6055
DOI:10.1136/bmjopen-2021-059873