Healthcare worker attendance during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal analysis of fingerprint-verified data from all public-sector secondary and tertiary care facilities in Bangladesh
This article was published in The Journal of Global Health [ © 2020 The Author(s) JoGH © 2020 ISGH] and the definite version is available at: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.01.20186445 The Journal's website is at: https://jogh.org/documents/issue202002/jogh-10-020509.pdf
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Healthcare worker attendance during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal analysis of fingerprint-verified data from all public-sector secondary and tertiary care facilities in Bangladesh |
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10361-165402022-04-12T21:01:36Z Healthcare worker attendance during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal analysis of fingerprint-verified data from all public-sector secondary and tertiary care facilities in Bangladesh Do, Duy Sarker, Malabika Chen, Simiao Lenjani, Ali Tikka, Pauli Bärnighausen, Till Geldsetzer, Pascal Brac James P. Grant School of Public Health COVID-19 Healthcare workers Attendance Health system Global health This article was published in The Journal of Global Health [ © 2020 The Author(s) JoGH © 2020 ISGH] and the definite version is available at: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.01.20186445 The Journal's website is at: https://jogh.org/documents/issue202002/jogh-10-020509.pdf Background The COVID-19 pandemic has overwhelmed hospitals in several areas in high-income countries. An effective response to this pandemic requires health care workers (HCWs) to be present at work, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where they are already in critically low supply. To inform whether and to what degree policymakers in Bangladesh, and LMICs more broadly, should expect a drop in HCW attendance as COVID-19 continues to spread, this study aims to determine how HCW attendance has changed during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh. Methods This study analyzed daily fingerprint-verified attendance data from all 527 public-sector secondary and tertiary care facilities in Bangladesh to describe HCW attendance from January 26, 2019 to March 22, 2020, by cadre, hospital type, and geographic division. We then regressed HCW attendance onto fixed effects for day-of-week, month, and hospital, as well as indicators for each of three pandemic periods: a China-focused period (January 11, 2020 (first confirmed COVID-19 death in China) until January 29, 2020), international-spread period (January 30, 2020 (World Health Organization’s declaration of a global emergency) until March 6, 2020), and local-spread period (March 7, 2020 (first confirmed COVID-19 case in Bangladesh) until the end of the study period). Findings On average between January 26, 2019 and March 22, 2020, 34.1% of doctors, 64.6% of nurses, and 70.6% of other health care staff were present for their scheduled shift. HCWs’ attendance rate increased with time in 2019 among all cadres. Nurses’ attendance level dropped by 2.5% points (95% confidence interval (CI)=-3.2% to -1.8%) and 3.5% points (95% CI=-4.5% to -2.5%) during the international-spread and the local-spread periods of the COVID-19 pandemic, relative to the China-focused period. Similarly, the attendance level of other health care staff declined by 0.3% points (95% CI=-0.8% to 0.2%) and 2.3% points (95% CI=-3.0% to -1.6%) during the international-spread and local-spread periods, respectively. Among doctors, however, the international-spread and local-spread periods were associated with a statistically significant increase in attendance by 3.7% points (95% CI=2.5% to 4.8%) and 4.9% points (95% CI=3.5% to 6.4%), respectively. The reduction in attendance levels across all HCWs during the local-spread period was much greater at large hospitals, where the majority of COVID-19 testing and treatment took place, than that at small hospitals. Conclusions After a year of significant improvements, HCWs’ attendance levels among nurses and other health care staff (who form the majority of Bangladesh’s health care workforce) have declined during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. This finding may portend an even greater decrease in attendance if COVID-19 continues to spread in Bangladesh. Policymakers in Bangladesh and similar LMICs should undertake major efforts to achieve high attendance levels among HCWs, particularly nurses, such as by providing sufficient personal protective equipment as well as monetary and non-monetary incentives Published 2022-04-12T06:19:43Z 2022-04-12T06:19:43Z 2020 2020-12-01 Journal Article Do, D., Sarker, M., Chen, S., Lenjani, A., Tikka, P., Bärnighausen, T., & Geldsetzer, P. (2020). Healthcare worker attendance during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal analysis of fingerprint-verified data from all public-sector secondary and tertiary care facilities in Bangladesh. Journal of Global Health, 10(2), 020509. doi:10.7189/jogh.10.020509 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/16540 10.1101/2020.09.01.20186445 en_US https://jogh.org/documents/issue202002/jogh-10-020509.pdf application/pdf Journal of Global Health |