Resident physicians' perceptions of COVID-19 risk.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Resident physicians provide front-line care to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients, but little is known about how they perceive the risk to their own health or how this is affected by the increasing role of social media in disseminating information. This study aims to determine resident physicians' perceptions of personal COVID-19 risk during the first COVID wave and compare risk perceptions between low-average and high social media users.

Methods

We conducted a cross-sectional survey at the University of Toronto in May 2020 among resident physicians in internal medicine, emergency medicine, critical care, and anaesthesia. Participants were considered high social media users if above the median for daily social media use and low-average users if at or bel

SUBMITTER: Hempel A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9603020 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature