Dilemma of physician-mothers faced with an increased home burden and clinical duties in the hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic

Autor: Yoshihisa Tsuji, Masayuki Koyama, Ai Kasuga, Taiji Tsukamoto, Naoya Masumori, Ayako Kumagai, Satsuki Miyajima, Eichi Narimatsu, Kotoe Iesato, Hirofumi Ohnishi, Kazufumi Tsuchihashi, Motonobu Kimizuka, Noriko Terada, Narumi Kubota, Kanna Nagaishi, Masayo Motoya, Sachiyo Nishida
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Questionnaires
Viral Diseases
Multivariate analysis
Epidemiology
Economics
Health Care Providers
Social Sciences
Geographical Locations
Families
Medical Conditions
Japan
Surveys and Questionnaires
Pandemic
Medicine and Health Sciences
Medical Personnel
Children
Multidisciplinary
Careers
Questionnaire
Middle Aged
Family life
Professions
Infectious Diseases
Research Design
Medicine
Female
Women
Working
Research Article
Adult
Employment
medicine.medical_specialty
Asia
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Science
MEDLINE
Mothers
Research and Analysis Methods
Physicians
Women
Physicians
medicine
Humans
Social disruption
Pandemics
Aged
Survey Research
business.industry
SARS-CoV-2
COVID-19
Covid 19
Dilemma
Health Care
Age Groups
Family medicine
Labor Economics
Medical Risk Factors
People and Places
Population Groupings
business
Zdroj: PLoS ONE
PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 6, p e0253646 (2021)
ISSN: 1932-6203
Popis: Purpose Since December 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread rapidly across the world. During the pandemic, physicians in our hospital have had to respond both to the issue of treating the patients and the increasing domestic burden associated with social disruption. The purpose of this study was to assess how much the burden on our doctors, especially female doctors, was increasing. Material and methods The Physicians’ Career Support Committee in Sapporo Medical University conducted a questionnaire survey. The questionnaire inquired about a wide range of subjects with regard to working style and family life during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, and was sent to all medical/dental physicians working in Sapporo Medical University. Results A total of 266 (42.7%) physicians in our hospital responded to our questionnaire and the data for 264 data were analyzed. The total numbers of males, females, and others, including those who did not want to specify, were 178 (67.4%), 82 (31.0%), and 4 (1.5%), respectively. Among them, 62 (23.5%) and 23 (8.7%) answered that their domestic burden was slightly or markedly increased. The increase in the domestic burden showed a significant difference between genders (p = 0.04). Even after correction for background differences using multivariate analysis, being female (p Conclusion Physician-mothers are caught in a dilemma between an increased home burden and clinical duties in the hospital, with a significantly higher ratio than physician-fathers during the pandemic. As we showed, female doctors could have not continued their careers and take responsible positions in the same way as male doctors. This is a social risk in the timing of a crisis, such as a pandemic.
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