Willingness of medical students to work on the COVID-19 frontline during the pandemic in China: A nationwide population-based cross-sectional study.

Willingness of medical students to work on the COVID-19 frontline during the pandemic in China: A nationwide population-based cross-sectional study.

Publication date: Dec 20, 2024

The World Health Organization declared that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) constitutes an international public health emergency, which has strained health resources. In this study, we aimed to understand medical students’ willingness to join the workforce fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic and identify factors associated with their decisions. We conducted a nationwide cross-sectional study using the Wen-Juan-Xing platform and a pre-designed questionnaire from 23 March to 19 April 2021. We conducted logistic regression analyses to identify the determinants associated with the willingness. Among the 5022 medical students, the majority (n = 4289, 85. 40%) expressed willingness to work on the COVID-19 frontline. Logistic regression indicated that medical students’ willingness to work on the COVID-19 frontline in China was associated with gender, region, reason for choosing medicine, having medical workers in the family, students whose family members, relatives or friends experienced COVID-19, and professional attitude. Females (odds ratio (OR) = 1. 305; 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1. 100-1. 549; P = 0. 0023), medical students from urban areas (OR = 1. 295; 95% CI = 1. 089-1. 539; P = 0. 0034), medical students whose choice of a medical career was their desire (OR = 1. 579; 95% CI = 1. 290-1. 933; P 

Concepts Keywords
China Adult
Coronavirus Career Choice
March China
Medicine COVID-19
Relatives Cross-Sectional Studies
Female
Humans
Male
Pandemics
SARS-CoV-2
Students, Medical
Surveys and Questionnaires
Young Adult

Semantics

Type Source Name
disease MESH COVID-19
disease MESH emergency
disease MESH Long Covid

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