PMID- 36340846
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20221108
IS  - 2371-0888 (Electronic)
IS  - 2371-0888 (Linking)
VI  - 7
IP  - 1
DP  - 2022 Mar
TI  - Resident physicians' perceptions of COVID-19 risk.
PG  - 36-43
LID - 10.3138/jammi-2020-0045 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: Resident physicians provide front-line care to coronavirus disease 
      2019 (COVID-19) patients, but little is known about how they perceive the risk to 
      their own health or how this is affected by the increasing role of social media 
      in disseminating information. This study aims to determine resident physicians' 
      perceptions of personal COVID-19 risk during the first COVID wave and compare 
      risk perceptions between low-average and high social media users. METHODS: We 
      conducted a cross-sectional survey at the University of Toronto in May 2020 among 
      resident physicians in internal medicine, emergency medicine, critical care, and 
      anaesthesia. Participants were considered high social media users if above the 
      median for daily social media use and low-average users if at or below the 
      median. The primary outcome was perceived risk of hospitalization with COVID-19 
      within 6 months. RESULTS: A total of 98 resident physicians reported a median of 
      1-2 hours daily on social media, and 55.7% endorsed social media as a very or the 
      most common source of information on COVID-19. The median overall perceived risk 
      of hospitalization was 10% (inter-quartile range [IQR] 5-25)-7.5% for low-average 
      social media users and 17.5% for high social media users (p = 0.10). CONCLUSIONS: 
      Resident physicians have an elevated perception of COVID-19 risk, including a 
      perceived risk of hospitalization 250 times greater than the local population 
      risk. Although social media are an important source of information on COVID-19, 
      risk perception did not significantly differ between high and low-average social 
      media users.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2022, Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease 
      Canada (AMMI Canada).
FAU - Hempel, Amanda
AU  - Hempel A
AD  - Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
FAU - Cressman, Alex
AU  - Cressman A
AD  - Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
FAU - Daneman, Nick
AU  - Daneman N
AD  - Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
AD  - Division of Infectious Diseases, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, 
      Ontario, Canada.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20220224
PL  - Canada
TA  - J Assoc Med Microbiol Infect Dis Can
JT  - Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada 
      = Journal officiel de l'Association pour la microbiologie medicale et 
      l'infectiologie Canada
JID - 101763536
PMC - PMC9603020
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - COVID-19
OT  - medical education
OT  - risk perception
COIS- The authors have nothing to disclose.
EDAT- 2022/11/08 06:00
MHDA- 2022/11/08 06:01
PMCR- 2022/02/24
CRDT- 2022/11/07 05:07
PHST- 2021/08/30 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/09/09 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/11/07 05:07 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/11/08 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/11/08 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2022/02/24 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.3138/jammi-2020-0045 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - J Assoc Med Microbiol Infect Dis Can. 2022 Feb 24;7(1):36-43. doi: 
      10.3138/jammi-2020-0045. eCollection 2022 Mar.