MP12-01 HEALTHCARE PRACTICES AND PERCEPTIONS OF THE UNITED STATES POPULATION DURING COVID-19: AN IMMEDIATE AND CROSS-SECTIONAL IMPACT STUDY

Autor:	Grace Castelli, Alicia Scimeca, Chintan Mehta, Cheryl T. Lee, John O.L. DeLancey, Dinah Diab, Lily Kaufman, Tasha Posid
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	education.field_of_study medicine.medical_specialty Telemedicine business.industry Urology media_common.quotation_subject Public health Population Public policy Feeling Family medicine Health care Pandemic Medicine Infection control business education media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Urology. 206
ISSN:	1527-3792 0022-5347
Popis:	INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE: Infection control practices and public policy in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have shifted healthcare practices towards a telemedicine format, and has resulted in delays or cancelations of in-person and non-emergency care. Our objective was to provide an immediate description of healthcare perceptions/practices of the general U.S. population during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in an effort to inform public health response. METHODS: This was a survey study with U.S. residents recruited via Amazon Mechanical Turk, a crowdsourcing platform recruiting minimally compensated participants. Respondents were asked about demographics, COVID-19 knowledge, and ability to access/seek healthcare for both COVID and non-COVID symptoms. Participants (n=1,960) were 70.4% non-Hispanic, 57.8% Caucasian, 68.9% male, 67.8% married, and 75.9% were employed full-time. 76.2% had a stay-at-home order issued for their area of residence. RESULTS: 80.5% of participants felt quarantine was necessary to stop further spread of COVID-19 and reported feeling 'somewhat knowledgeable' (ps
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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