Economic and emotional impact of COVID-19 pandemic on phoniatricians’ practice in Egypt

ABSTRACT:

Background

COVID-19 is not only a health crisis; it has the potential to create devastating social, as well as economic crises. Health care practitioners are the category with the highest diffusion of the contagion. The aim was to determine the economic and emotional impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on phoniatricians in Egypt in an attempt to analyze this data to determine the magnitude of this effect and if it is age and/or location specific.

Subjects and methods

An online structured Google-free form survey composed of 49 questions was created and sent online to phoniatricians all over Egypt. The survey was divided into three sections about demographic, economical then emotional-related questions. The studied group was further subdivided into 2 groups according to age and

SUBMITTER: Ibrahim A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8852922 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature