Access and Use Experience of Personal Protective Equipment Among Frontline Healthcare Workers in Pakistan During the COVID-19 Emergency: A Cross-Sectional Study

Hakim, Muhammad Luqman; Khattak, Farhad Ali; Shahzad, Muhammad; Ismail, Muhammad; Ullah, Naeem; Orakzai, Muhammad Atiq; ul-Islam, Siraj; Ul‐Haq, Zia

doi:10.1089/hs.2020.0142

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“…PPE use among HCWs is related to skin reactions such as dermatitis, allergy, atopy, facial itch, acne, rash [14][15][16][17][18]. HCWs wear PPE items for long periods of time due to the shortage of PPE especially at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and the increased workload in healthcare facilities [40,41]. This scenario increases considerably the risk of adverse events such as skin reactions.…”

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Impact of personal protective equipment use on health care workers’ physical health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Galanis

Vraka

Fragkou

et al. 2021

American Journal of Infection Control

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Impact of personal protective equipment use on health care workers’ physical health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis

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Vraka

Fragkou

et al. 2021

American Journal of Infection Control

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“…The current study was conducted among practitioners in hotels where environmental quality is vital for people’s health. Most studies concern healthcare workers, due to their health being closely related to their working environment [ 23 , 24 ]. However, targeting the practitioners of hotels is no less essential than healthcare workers for developing an effective intervention plan in public places and proposing an effective policy.…”

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Associations between Indoor Environmental Quality and Infectious Diseases Knowledge, Beliefs and Practices of Hotel Workers in Wuhan, China

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Liu

Zhang

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Knowledge, beliefs, and practices regarding infectious diseases are key elements that ensure practitioners’ health and safety. It is important to carry out such a survey in hotels. This study aims to determine the levels of knowledge, beliefs, and practices regarding infectious diseases among practitioners and their associations with the environmental quality of hotels in Wuhan, China. We surveyed infectious disease knowledge, beliefs, and practices of practitioners in 18 hotels and detected these hotels’ environment, including physical factors of temperature, humidity, noise, and the indoor air quality of benzene, toluene, xylene, formaldehyde, CO, CO2, the total count of fungi, aerobic plate count, PM10, and PM2.5. 128 practitioners were included, and 28.9% were male. The questionnaire included knowledge, beliefs, and practices regarding infectious diseases. Our study found moderate levels of knowledge and beliefs, and good health practices. People’s beliefs toward COVID-19 were correlated significantly with their knowledge (p < 0.05). Beliefs and health practices were correlated significantly with environmental quality (p < 0.05). However, the environmental quality was correlated negatively with the classification of hotels. Conclusively, despite the good health practices of practitioners, the knowledge and beliefs toward infectious diseases need to strengthen. Hotels should emphasize health education in practitioners and the improvement of environmental hygiene. Integrating all three components into a comprehensive environmental promotion program is warranted.

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“…Hence, HCWs should be reinforced and supported by health institutions for addressing their PPE needs. 50 – 54 …”

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Personal protective equipment utilization practice and psychological preparedness of health care workers against COVID-19 pandemic in Eastern Ethiopia

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Objectives: Effective implementation of prevention and control actions by health professionals is substantial to contain the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, this study aimed to assess health care worker’s practice of using personal protective equipment and psychological preparedness against the COVID-19 pandemic in Eastern Ethiopia. Methods: A facility-based cross-sectional study design was used. The health care workers (HCW) who were working in the selected health facilities were randomly selected. Variables that had p-value of < 0.15 were transformed to multivariable logistic regression model. Finally, the significance level was declared at the p-value < 0.05 with a 95% confidence interval (CI). Results: A total of 418 HCWs were randomly selected and included in this study. The study participants mean age was 27.96 years with a ±5.6SD. HCWs who were male (adjusted odds ratio(AOR) = 2.21, 95% CI: 1.29–3.79), regularly using sanitizer, accessing COVID-19 management guideline (AOR = 2.83, 95% CI: 1.46–5.47), trained on COVID-19 prevention methods (AOR = 2.6, 95% CI: 1.4–4.7), hopeless of eventually getting COVID-19 at workplace (AOR = 1.9, 95% CI: 1.13–3.28), and feeling unsafe at work when using standard precautions (AOR = 0.46, 95% CI: 0.27–0.79) were associated with good PPE using compared to their counterparts. Moreover, nursing/midwifery professionals practiced good personal protective equipment compared to physicians (AOR = 3.7, 95% CI: 1.8–7.7). Conclusion: The study demonstrated that being a male, being a nurse/midwifery, regularly sanitizing hands/medical equipment, having COVID-19 management guidelines, trained on COVID-19, and feeling of eventually getting COVID-19 at workplace had a positive association with PPE utilization. Besides, the study revealed that not feeling safe at work when using standard precautions was negatively associated with PPE utilization of HCWs. Therefore, the prevention priorities should be given to frontline HCWs by providing all possible support and strictly implementing the prevention and control guidelines of COVID-19 to prevent the health system from collapse.

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Access and Use Experience of Personal Protective Equipment Among Frontline Healthcare Workers in Pakistan During the COVID-19 Emergency: A Cross-Sectional Study

Cited by 29 publications

References 18 publications

Impact of personal protective equipment use on health care workers’ physical health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Impact of personal protective equipment use on health care workers’ physical health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Associations between Indoor Environmental Quality and Infectious Diseases Knowledge, Beliefs and Practices of Hotel Workers in Wuhan, China

Personal protective equipment utilization practice and psychological preparedness of health care workers against COVID-19 pandemic in Eastern Ethiopia

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