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. 2023 Dec;13(4):842-856.
doi: 10.1007/s44197-023-00156-7. Epub 2023 Oct 9.

Social and Economic Impacts of COVID-19 Among Health Professionals in Vietnam: Status and Associations with Quality of Life and Sleep Quality

Linh Phuong Doan  1   2 , Laurent Boyer  3 , Pascal Auquier  3 , Guillaume Fond  3 , Bach Tran  3 , Carl A Latkin  4 , Hien Thu Nguyen  5   6 , Toan Van Ngo  7 , Roger C M Ho  8   9 , Cyrus S H Ho  8 , Melvyn W B Zhang  10
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Social and Economic Impacts of COVID-19 Among Health Professionals in Vietnam: Status and Associations with Quality of Life and Sleep Quality

Linh Phuong Doan et al. J Epidemiol Glob Health. 2023 Dec.

Abstract

Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the way of life of many individuals, especially those working at the frontlines, such as healthcare workers. Our study aims to examine the impact of COVID-19 on the socio-economic status, quality of life, and sleep quality when Vietnam was experiencing the 4th wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 604 healthcare workers using snowball sampling from October through to November 2021. Our study examined the impact of the government's COVID-19 prevention policy including personal protective measures (5K measures), directive 15, directive 16, and directive 16 plus. The EQ-5D-5L and EQ-VAS were used to measure health-related quality of life and a scale of 1 to 10 was used to rate sleep quality of healthcare workers.

Results: A total of 604 respondents, most people were female (57.9%), and working as civil servants (75.3%). Very few participants were able to increase their earnings during the pandemic. Participants who did not have monthly allowance amounts had the highest proportion (60.1%), followed by those under 2 million VND (21.2%). In the univariate regression model, people with high government policy scores tend to have lower quality of life and sleep quality scores. In addition, in the multivariable regression model, people with high scores on government policies tend to have lower quality of life (EQ-5D) scores.

Conclusion: The COVID-19 prevention measures had a negative impact on quality of life, sleep quality, and daily demands of healthcare workers. These findings should help guide future policy implementations.

Keywords: COVID-19; Healthcare worker; Quality of life; Sleep quality; Vietnam.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no conflict of interest to declare that is relevant to the content of this article.

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Change in earnings during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Changes in spending during the COVID-19 pandemic
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