Negative and positive impacts on lives of resident doctors working in a dedicated COVID-19 hospital in Mumbai: A mixed-methods study

Feb 19, 2024Industrial psychiatry journal

Positive and negative effects on resident doctors working in a COVID-19 hospital in Mumbai

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Qualitative findings indicate that resident doctors experienced both negative and positive impacts in their physical, emotional, social, and professional lives during COVID-19 duties.

Themes identified include negative impacts on physical, emotional, social, and professional life.
Positive impacts were observed in the social, professional, and personal domains.
Qualitative and quantitative results align across all questions in the WHOQOL-BREF scale.
Qualitative findings suggest that COVID-19 duties prompted self-reflection and personal growth.
The experiences in COVID-19 wards may have transformed resident doctors into better practitioners.

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BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in inducting trainee resident doctors (RDs) in the care of COVID-19 patients. Limited research has been conducted to understand the impact of domains other than physical and emotional health on their lives. The focus has been to understand the negative consequences of COVID-19 duties, disregarding the possibility of any positive impact that could have emerged.

AIM: This mixed-methods study (qualitative and quantitative) aims to explore the holistic and comprehensive impacts of COVID-19 duties on RD's lives.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: This is a mixed-methods convergent design study conducted in a 1400-bed multispecialty teaching hospital in a metropolitan city in India. A phenomenological approach was used for the qualitative part of the study, and the data were collected using focus group discussions (FGDs). For quantitative purposes, the World Health Organization Quality of Life Brief Version (WHOQOL-BREF) questionnaire was administered.

RESULTS: Qualitative findings show themes of negative impact covering domains of physical, emotional, social, and professional life. Themes that reveal a positive impact have emerged in the social, professional, and personal domains of the RDs' lives. Quantitative and qualitative results were in agreement with all the questions covered in the WHOQOL-BREF scale; however, the qualitative data findings extend far beyond.

CONCLUSION: In the course of the COVID-19 duties, the RD has suffered in multiple domains, yet it has allowed them to self-reflect and change. As a consequence, they have grown as individuals in many areas of their lives. Working in COVID-19 wards has had a holistic impact on the RDs and has transformed them into better doctors.

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Negative and positive impacts on lives of resident doctors working in a dedicated COVID-19 hospital in Mumbai: A mixed-methods study

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