The Impact of Pandemic Management on the Quality of Life of Slovak Dentists
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15260%2F21%3A73610401" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15260/21:73610401 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/10/5484/htm" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/10/5484/htm</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105484" target="_blank" >10.3390/ijerph18105484</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Impact of Pandemic Management on the Quality of Life of Slovak Dentists
Original language description
Pandemic management increases the burden on healthcare workers to provide care and also affects their personal lives, with dentists being at particular risk. Therefore, we aim to describe the quality of life (QoL) and limitations experienced due to pandemic management-related measures (PanMan), as well as to assess the association of PanMan with QoL during the first lockdown after the coronavirus outbreak. We obtained data from 500 dentists (33.2% males, M/SD = 43.8) registered with the Slovak Chamber of Dentists using an online questionnaire. We categorized PanMan as the availability of personal protective equipment (PPE) and the ability to implement anti-pandemic measures, information overload, pandemic-related limitations and QoL in terms of their impact on family life and activities, housekeeping, relationships with relatives, financial situation and mental well-being. PanMan mainly affected financial situation, mental well-being and housekeeping. Factors contributing most towards the worsening of QoL were information overload (odds ratio/95% confidence interval, OR/CI: 5.79/2.64-12.71) and several pandemic-related limitations. These consisted of (OR/CI): a lack of PPE (5.17/2.48-10.77), infection risks in the work environment (3.06/1.57-5.95), obligatory safety measures (3.02/1.47-6.21), lack of staff (2.85/1.30-6.25) and client concerns (3.56/1.70-7.49). Pandemic management has led to a considerable worsening of dentists' QoL.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30304 - Public and environmental health
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
ISSN
1661-7827
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Volume of the periodical
18
Issue of the periodical within the volume
10
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
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UT code for WoS article
000654825500001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85106144710