Evidence map›Paper›PMID 39645247›Full record

ArticleBMJ open2024

Vaccination status, personal and workplace experiences of early career health professionals in the WiSDOM cohort study during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa.

Laetitia Rispel, Prudence Ditlopo, Janine A White, Duane Blaauw

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in BMJ open, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Satisfaction with clinical practice environments among early-career health professionals in South Africa: findings from the WiSDOM cohort study.International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care · 2026
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Laetitia RispelCentre for Health Policy and SARChI Chair, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg Faculty of Health Sciences, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa laetitia.rispel@wits.ac.za.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7806-6331
Prudence DitlopoCentre for Health Policy, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg Faculty of Health Sciences, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5772-3125
Janine A WhiteSchool of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg Faculty of Health Sciences, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8547-2012
Duane BlaauwCentre for Health Policy, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg Faculty of Health Sciences, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0605-7134

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionThe knowledge gaps on the experiences of early career health professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic informed this study, which examined their vaccination status, personal and workplace experiences in South Africa.

methods

resultsIn 2022, the mean age of the 363 cohort members was 28.9 (± 2.1), and the majority were female (74.2%). In 2020, 22.6% of the cohort reported COVID-19 infections but this increased to 45.3% by 2021. The composite index shows that doctors and nurses reported the lowest COVID-19 workplace support, while oral hygienists and dentists reported the most support. Although 89.5% of cohort members reported full COVID-19 vaccination status, 9.4% indicated non-intention to get vaccinated. The regression analysis showed that doctors (p<0.001) and women (p<0.05) reported significantly lower workplace COVID-19 support scores. Those working in hospitals had 17.1% higher COVID-19 infections (p<0.01). The lack of a COVID-19 supportive workplace resulted in 15.7% higher infections among early career health professionals (p<0.01).

conclusionThe study findings underscore the need for positive practice environments for early career health professionals in South Africa.

Indexed as

COVID-19Health PersonnelSARS-CoV-2WorkplaceAdultCOVID-19 VaccinesFemaleHumansLongitudinal StudiesMalePandemicsProspective StudiesSouth AfricaSurveys and QuestionnairesVaccinationCOVID-19 VaccinesCOVID-19Health ServicesHealth Workforce

Identifiers

PMID39645247
PMCPMC11628963

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.