Risk Factors and Individual Protection Measures for COVID-19 in Federal Police Officers

Autor: Jefferson Aparecido Dias, Eduardo Federighi Baisi Chagas, Cláudia Rucco Penteado Detregiachi, Fernanda Mesquita Serva, Piero Biteli, Claudemir Gregório Mendes, Elídia Fabiana de Souza Xavier, Carlos Francisco Bitencourt Jorge, Tereza Lais Menegucci Zutin, Mateus Cezar dos Santos, Daniela Vieira Buchaim, Rogério Leone Buchaim
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Hygiene; Volume 2; Issue 4; Pages: 187-199
Repositório Institucional da USP (Biblioteca Digital da Produção Intelectual)
Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
instacron:USP
ISSN: 2673-947X
DOI: 10.3390/hygiene2040017
Popis: The coronavirus of severe acute respiratory syndrome 2 (SARS-CoV-2), known as COVID-19, has spread rapidly around the world, leading to social detachment and the home office replacing face-to-face work. The performance of police officers faces limitations to the new requirements while recognizing the need to ensure health and quality of life. Thus, the present study aimed to verify the panorama of the spread of COVID-19 among federal police officers by analyzing the presence of symptoms, individual protection measures (IPM), and suspect screening measures (SSM). For this, data were collected through a questionnaire customized for this situation and measurements of clinical data from 56 federal police officers in the municipality of Marília (São Paulo, Brazil) were performed. The mean value of the body mass index (27.2 ± 5.4 kg/m2) suggests overweight and obesity, in addition to the presence of hypertension at 16.1%, diabetes at 3.6%, asthma at 3.6%, and obesity at 25%, which represents an important risk of complications for COVID-19. The use of a mask is the most frequent IPM (96.4%) and most of the sample has used a cloth or home mask (90.9%). However, 47.3% have not performed the correct cleaning of the masks and 5.5% have not taken any care with mask hygiene. In conclusion, although the IPM was adopted by most of the research participants, some did not adopt important measures such as wearing a mask, which can increase the risk of contamination and contagion due to the work environment and routine. The highest risk factors observed were obesity and hypertension, but even in these conditions, the absence of important IPMs was still verified.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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