Preparedness and attitude toward personal protective equipment among house officers during COVID-19 pandemic in Egypt
| Autor: | Elfazary Nouran, Marwa Mostafa Ahmed, Inas Talaat Elsayed, Soliman Saeed, Alsallout Inas, Fares Samar, Asmaa Ahmed Sayed |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Adult
medicine.medical_specialty Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) media_common.quotation_subject 030231 tropical medicine 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Informed consent house officers Pandemic medicine Humans AcademicSubjects/MED00860 030212 general & internal medicine Personal protective equipment Pandemics media_common business.industry SARS-CoV-2 Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health COVID-19 General Medicine Odds ratio Confidence interval preparedness Preparedness Family medicine personal protective equipment Egypt Original Article Worry business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Public Health (Oxford, England) |
| ISSN: | 1741-3850 |
| Popis: | Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) struck the world by surprise by the rising numbers that required prompt governmental and hospital staff reaction to the ongoing crisis. A robust preparedness and personal protective equipment (PPE) were yet to be regarded as our best plan. Methods A survey study was conducted on 254 Egyptian house officers using an anonymous web-based questionnaire that was filled using Google Forms after obtaining online informed consent. Results The mean age of the participants was 25 years. Only 28.74% of the house officers were categorized as having a good preparedness, while 85.83% of them have a good PPE attitude. The preparedness and willingness were significantly associated with the overall worry related to the pandemic (P value = 0.012). Fear of contracting COVID-19 infection negatively affected their preparedness by 60% (odds ratio (OR) 0.40, 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.17–0.93, P value = 0.034). The House officers with family members at-risk for severe COVID-19 were less likely to be prepared and willing by 70% (OR 0.30, 95% CI 0.15–0.60, P value = 0.001). The house officers with good preparedness and willingness to deal with COVID-19 seemed to have a good PPE attitude (OR 11.48, 95% CI 2.43-54.34, P value = 0.002). Conclusion A significant number of house officers expressed low levels of preparedness, while most of them have a good PPE attitude. |
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