Awareness and Readiness To Implement the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana: A Cross-Sectional Study Among Healthcare Workers of a Tertiary Care Hospital in Eastern India.
awareness
ayushman bharat
health insurance
healthcare workers
india
pmjay
readiness
Journal
Cureus
ISSN: 2168-8184
Titre abrégé: Cureus
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101596737
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Apr 2022
Apr 2022
Historique:
accepted:
28
04
2022
entrez:
2
6
2022
pubmed:
3
6
2022
medline:
3
6
2022
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Background The Indian government announced "Ayushman Bharat" for a New India 2022 during the 2018-19 parliament budget sessions, which includes the national health protection scheme presently known as "Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY)" to facilitate access to secondary and tertiary healthcare services. This study aimed to see how well healthcare workers (HCWs) understood the PMJAY and how prepared they were to administer it. Materials and methods With an anticipated sample size of 411, this hospital-based analytical, cross-sectional study was done among treating faculty, resident doctors, and nursing officers as study participants. Participants completed a self-administered, pre-tested, semi-structured questionnaire to determine their level of awareness and readiness to adopt PMJAY. SPSS Version 22 software (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) was used to analyze the data. Results The overall mean (SD) awareness score and mean readiness score among HCWs were found to be 5.52 (1.82) and 18.49 (4.5), respectively. There was a significantly high awareness score among doctors compared to nursing officers. The relation between awareness score and readiness score showed a weak positive significant correlation (r=0.174, p=0.001). The linear regression model demonstrated an increase of 0.432 units in readiness for every unit increase in awareness score. Conclusion The doctor's mean awareness score was little over half of the maximum attainable score. Faculty members were more aware of the scheme than the residents and nursing officers. The readiness to implement PMJAY improves as the awareness grows. Frequent workshops on PMJAY for stakeholders are required for better readiness.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35651396
doi: 10.7759/cureus.24574
pmc: PMC9138266
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
e24574Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2022, Nirala et al.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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