Evaluation of utility and usefulness of webinars on COVID-19 management: a questionnaire-based survey | ||||
| Ain-Shams Journal of Anesthesiology | ||||
| Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2021 PDF (778.52 K) | ||||
| DOI: 10.1186/s42077-021-00187-x | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
Rekha Gupta; B. Naveen Naik; Venkata Ganesh; Ajay Singh   ; Shiv Lal Soni; G. D. Puri
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| Abstract | ||||
| Background The COVID-19 pandemic and its consequent “social distancing” has fueled the use of social media platforms for educational purposes. Since the start of the pandemic, a plethora of experts and self-proclaimed experts have been keenly delivering webinars on COVID. This begs the question “Do webinars on COVID-19 really help in the improvement of knowledge base or management skills?”. The questionnaire was designed to assess information regarding COVID-webinars and their usefulness from the end-user standpoint. The response to the questions was measured using a 4- or 5-point Likert scale. The survey was open for a 4-week period with the extension of 1 week. Results The response rate was 54% as 270 out of 500 participants responded to the questionnaire. The majority of the respondents were anesthesiologists in-training, post-graduates, fellows, and seniors belonging to tertiary care settings with fewer percentages belonging to physicians and others. Most of the doctors had attended an average of 2 webinars per week. The tests of model effects showed a significant negative correlation of webinar quality ratings for district hospital healthcare setting of the attendees (of value of 0.013) and for the number of COVID-related webinars attended per week ( value of 0.009). Conclusions Most respondents had favorable perceptions of webinars happening during the pandemic. However, there is a need for improvisation in the volume of webinars, target-audience-based delivery, and participant interaction to add value to this new dimension of teaching-learning. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| COVID-19; Webinars; Healthcare workers | ||||
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