Succumbing to the COVID-19 Pandemic—Healthcare Workers Not Satisfied and Intend to Leave Their Jobs

  1. Stephen X. Zhang
  2. Jiyao Chen
  3. Asghar Afshar Jahanshahi
  4. Aldo Alvarez-Risco
  5. Huiyang Dai
  6. Jizhen Li
  7. Ross Mary Patty-Tito

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  1. Version published to 10.1007/s11469-020-00418-6
  2. Version published to 10.2196/preprints.21870
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    Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board StatementConsent: All participants agreed with their informed consent to enroll in the online survey.
    IRB: The study was approved by the ethics committee of Tsinghua University (20200322)
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.
    Cell Line Authenticationnot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Experimental Models: Cell Lines
    SentencesResources
    Media reported healthcare workers in several hospitals turned away COVID-19 patients out of concern over the limited resources in overcrowded facilities (Laing and Ramos, 2020).
    Ramos
    suggested: None

    Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).

    Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
    This study has some limitations. First, as data collection is challenging during the COVID-19 crisis, particularly for busy healthcare staff, we used convenience sampling. Second, to our best knowledge, this is the first study that has examined several job characteristics, such as office days, temporary staff, and job redeployment, as predictors for healthcare workers’ job-related outcomes under COVID-19. Such practices differ across countries and healthcare systems (Jahanshahi et al., 2020), and future studies may test these factors. Protecting and retaining healthcare workers is paramount during a pandemic. This study demonstrates healthcare workers’ number of office days matters to their job satisfaction, life satisfaction, and turnover intention. However, the number of office days carries different impacts for younger and older workers. We call for more studies on healthcare workers from the perspective of their ongoing working characteristics under the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.

    Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.

    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.

    Results from rtransparent:
    • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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