A survey of UK healthcare workers' attitudes on volunteering to help with the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To understand the barriers and enablers for UK healthcare workers who are considering going to work in the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa, but have not yet volunteered.

Design

After focus group discussions, and a pilot questionnaire, an anonymous survey was conducted using SurveyMonkey to determine whether people had considered going to West Africa, what factors might make them more or less likely to volunteer, and whether any of these were modifiable factors.

Participants

The survey was publicised among doctors, nurses, laboratory staff and allied health professionals. 3109 people answered the survey, of whom 472 (15%) were considering going to work in the epidemic but had not yet volunteered. 1791 (57.6%) had not considered going, 704 (22.6%) had co

SUBMITTER: Turtle L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4356617 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature