Health care workers’ risk perceptions and willingness to report for work during an influenza pandemic

Auteurs

Georges Dionne, HEC MontréalFollow
Denise Desjardins, HEC MontréalFollow
Martin Lebeau, IRSSTFollow
Stéphane Messier, HEC MontréalFollow
André Dascal, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Jewish General Hospital and McGill UniversityFollow

Type de document

Études primaires

Année de publication

2018

Langue

Anglais

Titre de la revue

Risks

Résumé

The ability and willingness of health care workers to report for work during a pandemic are essential to pandemic response. The main contribution of this article is to examine the relationship between risk perception of personal and work activities and willingness to report for work during an influenza pandemic. Data were collected through a quantitative Web-based survey sent to health care workers on the island of Montreal. Respondents were asked about their perception of various risks to obtain index measures of risk perception. A multinomial logit model was applied for the probability estimations, and a factor analysis was conducted to compute risk perception indexes (scores). Risk perception associated with personal and work activities is a significant predictor of intended presence at work during an influenza pandemic. This means that correcting perceptual biases should be a public policy concern. These results have not been previously reported in the literature. Many organizational variables are also significant.

Mots-clés

Évaluation du risque, Hazard evaluation, Personnel médical, Medical personnel, Personnel infirmier, Pandémie, Pandémic, Présentéisme, Presenteeism, Grippe, Influenza, Service de santé, Health service, Québec

Numéro de projet IRSST

n/a

Citation recommandée

Dionne, G., Desjardins, D., Lebeau, M., Messier, S. et Dascal, A. (2018). Health care workers’ risk perceptions and willingness to report for work during an influenza pandemic. Risks, 6(1), article 8. https://doi.org/10.3390/risks6010008