COVID-19 infection in nursing staff: A cohort study.

Autor: Nogueira LS; Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade de São Paulo, Av Dr Enéas de Carvalho Aguiar, 419, São Paulo, 05403000, Brazil., Poveda VB; Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade de São Paulo, Av Dr Enéas de Carvalho Aguiar, 419, São Paulo, 05403000, Brazil., Lemos CS; Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade de São Paulo, Av Dr Enéas de Carvalho Aguiar, 419, São Paulo, 05403000, Brazil., Bruna CQM; Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade de São Paulo, Av Dr Enéas de Carvalho Aguiar, 419, São Paulo, 05403000, Brazil., Moura BRS; Hospital Universitário, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes, 2565, São Paulo, 05508-000, Brazil.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: International journal of nursing practice [Int J Nurs Pract] 2023 Aug; Vol. 29 (4), pp. e13147. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Mar 17.
DOI: 10.1111/ijn.13147
Abstrakt: Aim: This study aims to identify the working conditions of Brazilian nursing professionals and the risk factors for these professionals to become infected by coronavirus disease.
Background: Understanding the factors that affected nursing professionals during the pandemic can support better nursing management.
Design: This is a quantitative, cross-sectional survey study.
Methods: Data collection was carried out between February and March 2022 in Brazil. All nursing professionals registered in the national database received by e-mail the study instrument with the data collection variables: professionals' sociodemographic and comorbid, professional and institutional characteristics, and professionals' health conditions and disease-related aspects for COVID-19.
Results: Four thousand eight hundred sixty-two nursing professionals reported a lack of personal protective equipment for patient care, and 4424 were infected by coronavirus disease. The risk factors to become infected were having cardiovascular disease, being under 60 years of age, living in the northern region, using public transportation, working in a hospital, an emergency department or reference institution for COVID-19, living with an infected person and lack of respirators or waterproof aprons.
Conclusion: Multiple risk factors for infection with SARS-CoV-2 were demonstrated for the nursing professionals during the pandemic, highlighting current and future pandemics factors that are modifiable in a worthwhile time frame to minimize nurses' infection risks, such as inadequate working conditions associated with lack of essential personal protective equipment.
(© 2023 John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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