Chinese medical students’ interest in COVID-19 pandemic

作者：Nanze Yu, Zhi‐Jin Li, Yuming Chong, Yuan Xu, Junping Fan, Yang Yang, Yue Teng, Yu-Wei Zhang, Wenchao Zhang, Ming‐Zi Zhang, Jiuzuo Huang, Xiaojun Wang, Shu-Yang Zhang, Xiao Long · 发表于：World Journal of Virology · 年份：2020 · DOI：10.5501/wjv.v9.i3.38 · 被引用次数：37 · 研究领域：COVID-19 and Mental Health、Disaster Response and Management、Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy

BACKGROUND: The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) happened in early December and it has affected China in more ways than one. The societal response to the pandemic restricted medical students to their homes. Although students cannot learn about COVID-19 through clinical practice, they can still pay attention to news of COVID-19 through various channels. Although, as suggested by previous studies, some medical students have already volunteered to serve during the COVID-19 pandemic, the overall willingness of Chinese medical students to volunteer for such has not been systematically examined. AIM: To study Chinese medical students' interest in the relevant knowledge on COVID-19 and what roles they want to play in the pandemic. METHODS: a web-based questionnaire to obtain data on the extent of interest in the relevant knowledge on COVID-19, attitude towards volunteerism in the pandemic, and career preference. Logistic regression modeling was used to investigate possible factors that could encourage volunteerism among this group in a pandemic. RESULTS: < 0.05). Senior students had higher scores than the other two classes. The number of people who were 'glad to volunteer' in COVID-19 represented 85.6% of the respondents. What these students expressed willingness to undertake involved direct, indirect, and administrative job activities. Logistic regression analysis identified two factors that negatively influenced volunteering in the pandemic: Student-class and hazard...