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Title: | COVID Pandemic Impact on Healthcare Provision and Patient Psychosocial Distress: A Multi-National Cross-Sectional Survey among Asia-Pacific Countries | Authors: | Chung, Eric Jiann, Bang-Ping Nagao, Koichi Hakim, Lukman Huang, William Lee, Joe Lin, Haocheng Dung, Ba Tien Mai Quang, Nguyen Park, Hyun Jun Sato, Yoshikazu Tantiwongse, Kavirach Yuan, Yiming Park, Kwangsung |
Keywords: | Science & Technology Life Sciences & Biomedicine Andrology Health Care Sciences & Services Urology & Nephrology Endocrinology & Metabolism COVID-19 Digital technology Psychological distress Telemedicine STRESS SCALES DASS RECOMMENDATIONS TELEMEDICINE DEPRESSION STATES |
Issue Date: | 1-Oct-2021 | Publisher: | KOREAN SOC SEXUAL MEDICINE & ANDROLOGY | Citation: | Chung, Eric, Jiann, Bang-Ping, Nagao, Koichi, Hakim, Lukman, Huang, William, Lee, Joe, Lin, Haocheng, Dung, Ba Tien Mai, Quang, Nguyen, Park, Hyun Jun, Sato, Yoshikazu, Tantiwongse, Kavirach, Yuan, Yiming, Park, Kwangsung (2021-10-01). COVID Pandemic Impact on Healthcare Provision and Patient Psychosocial Distress: A Multi-National Cross-Sectional Survey among Asia-Pacific Countries. WORLD JOURNAL OF MENS HEALTH 39 (4) : 797-803. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.5534/wjmh.210033 | Abstract: | PURPOSE: COVID pandemic significantly affected the delivery and maintenance of healthcare system, resulting in greater utilization of digital health interventions. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This multi-national cross-sectional survey was administered to clinicians working in major Asia-Pacific cities during the mandatory social lockdown period in June 2020. Clinical demographics and professional data, delivery of Andrology-related healthcare services, and patient distress based on validated questionnaires such as Depression and Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS) and Decisional Engagement Scale (DES) were collected. RESULTS: Telehealth medicine was instituted in all the centres with the majority of centres (92.9%) reported a 50% or more reduction in out-patient related services. The numbers of phone calls, emails correspondence and educational webinars have significantly increased. Despite the provision of reasons for changes in healthcare service and delay in surgery, more than half of the patients (57.1%) rated 2 on the DASS score for the item on patients over-react to situations, while a third of the patients (35.7%) scored a 2 for DASS item on patients being more demanding or unreasonable. The DES scores were more positive with most patients reported a score above 7 out of 10 in terms of items on accepting current arrangement (85.7%), confident in clinician decision-making about treatment (92.9%) and comfortable that the decision is consistent with their preferences (71.4%). Most patients (85.7%) indicated their preferences for more detailed information on healthcare provision. CONCLUSIONS: Our study showed telehealth services were integrated early and successfully during the COVID pandemic and patients were generally receptive with minimal psychosocial distress. | Source Title: | WORLD JOURNAL OF MENS HEALTH | URI: | https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/208676 | ISSN: | 22874208 22874690 |
DOI: | 10.5534/wjmh.210033 |
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