JPSIM Journal of Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine J Pak Soc Intern Med 2709-8729 2710-0804 Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine 10.70302/jpsim.v3i3.2246 jpsim.v3i3.2246 Original Research Communication Anxiety among Multidisciplinary Health Professionals during Online Sessions in COVID-19 Bari Sehrish sehrishbari2@gmail.com * Yaqoob Saba waseem Humaira Saghir Aysha Imtiaz Rooma Malik Jamshid Haider Speech language pathologist in Sahiwal Nur International University Lahore Fatima Jinnah Medical University Lahore Behavior and Special Education School Sialkot University of Lahore City Care Hospital Rawalpindi *Correspondence: Sehrish Bari (sehrishbari2@gmail.com) 12 09 2022 2022 3 3 233 237 01 04 2022 21 06 2022 Copyright © 2022 The Author(s) 2022 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Objective

This study aims to determine the communication anxiety among multidisciplinary health professionals during online sessions in COVID-19 and to recognize the causes of communication anxiety.

 Methodology

Cross sectional study was done sample size was 50 with no specific proportion among professionals. Sample was taken from three professionals from a multidisciplinary team which were speech SLP/SLT, psychologist and physiotherapist. Data was collected by using a 25 questions questionnaire. Data was collected online from speech language pathologist/therapist, psychologist, and physiotherapist. Permissions were taken for data collection. Demographics were taken.

 Results

Tables from SPSS show analyzed results. Data collected was analyzed by using the SPSS. Endnote was used for the references.

 Conclusion

There is a great call to make strategies, to build tailored solutions to resolve these issues that are discussed in discussion which lead to communication anxiety and provide the multidisciplinary health professionals with meaningful resources for online sessions. One most important point is that we should normalize tele practice in Pakistan both for patients and professionals. It will be beneficial for the coming generation of students if we trained them tele practice and add it in their courses as well.

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