Dilemma of physician-mothers faced with an increased home burden and clinical duties in the hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic

Since December 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread rapidly across the world. During the pandemic, physicians in our hospital have had to respond both to the issue of treating the patients and the increasing domestic burden associated with social disruption. The purpose of this study...

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Published in:PloS one 2021-06, Vol.16 (6), p.e0253646-e0253646
Main Authors: Nishida, Sachiyo, Nagaishi, Kanna, Motoya, Masayo, Kumagai, Ayako, Terada, Noriko, Kasuga, Ai, Kubota, Narumi, Iesato, Kotoe, Kimizuka, Motonobu, Miyajima, Satsuki, Koyama, Masayuki, Ohnishi, Hirofumi, Narimatsu, Eichi, Masumori, Naoya, Tsuchihashi, Kazufumi, Tsukamoto, Taiji, Tsuji, Yoshihisa
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Careers
Children
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Demographic aspects
Dental materials
Emergency medical care
Family
Females
Graduate students
Health risks
Hospitals
Housework
Income
Medical personnel
Medicine
Medicine and Health Sciences
Metabolism
Multivariate analysis
Pandemics
Patients
Pediatrics
People and Places
Physicians
Practice
Public health
Questionnaires
Research and Analysis Methods
Rural health care
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Social interactions
Social Sciences
Urology
Viral diseases
Women physicians
Work-life balance
Working mothers
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Summary:Since December 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread rapidly across the world. During the pandemic, physicians in our hospital have had to respond both to the issue of treating the patients and the increasing domestic burden associated with social disruption. The purpose of this study was to assess how much the burden on our doctors, especially female doctors, was increasing. The Physicians' Career Support Committee in Sapporo Medical University conducted a questionnaire survey. The questionnaire inquired about a wide range of subjects with regard to working style and family life during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, and was sent to all medical/dental physicians working in Sapporo Medical University. A total of 266 (42.7%) physicians in our hospital responded to our questionnaire and the data for 264 data were analyzed. The total numbers of males, females, and others, including those who did not want to specify, were 178 (67.4%), 82 (31.0%), and 4 (1.5%), respectively. Among them, 62 (23.5%) and 23 (8.7%) answered that their domestic burden was slightly or markedly increased. The increase in the domestic burden showed a significant difference between genders (p = 0.04). Even after correction for background differences using multivariate analysis, being female (p
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0253646