24/2020
2020-08-04
Medical care during the pandemic
A significant proportion of the people surveyed have reported difficulties in access to medical care, caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Most frequently these involved postponed or cancelled appointments with specialists (30%) and general practitioners (24%). Diagnostic tests or outpatient procedures and planned hospital inpatient procedures were postponed much less frequently (in 12% and 4% cases respectively). Relatively few respondents (1%) reported difficulties with getting help from a hospital Accident & Emergency Department.
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More on this subject in the CBOS report.
This ‘Current Events and Problems’ survey (360) was conducted using a mixed-mode procedure on a representative sample of named adult residents of Poland, randomly selected from the National Identity Number (PESEL) register.
Respondents independently selected one of the following methods:
– Computer Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI);
– Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI), respondents receiving researchers’ telephone numbers in an introductory letter from CBOS;
– Computer Assisted Web Interview (CAWI), where respondents filled in the online questionnaire independently, gaining access by means of a login and password provided in an introductory letter from CBOS.
– Computer Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI);
– Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI), respondents receiving researchers’ telephone numbers in an introductory letter from CBOS;
– Computer Assisted Web Interview (CAWI), where respondents filled in the online questionnaire independently, gaining access by means of a login and password provided in an introductory letter from CBOS.
In all three cases the questionnaire had the same structure and comprised the same questions. The survey was carried out between 15 and 25 June 2020 inclusive on a sample of 1378 people (65.3% using the CAPI method, 20.8% CATI and 13.9% CAWI).
