Changes in dermatological complaints among healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 outbreak in Turkey

Abstract

From April 5th to 12th, 2020, between the 25th and 32nd days after the first COVID-19 case in Turkey, a self-administered online questionnaire (SurveyMonkey®) consisting of 90 questions was conducted for doctors and nurses that voluntarily participated in the study. We aimed to reduce the risk of bias in the questions posed to the participants by carrying out this retrospective study in the early phase of the COVID-19 outbreak. The first part of the questionnaire examined subjects such as demographic characteristics, occupational and institutional information, medical history,

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

“…After the screening of the titles and abstracts, we removed 2671 records and we added 4 more records found by the reference lists scanning. Finally, we included 14 studies [26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39] in this metaanalysis that met our inclusion criteria.…”

“…Main characteristics of the studies included in our systematic review and metaanalysis are shown in Table 1 [26,28,[30][31][32][33]35,36,38,39], two studies were conducted in Europe [34,37], one study was conducted in South America [27], and one study included HCWs from 10 countries [29]. All studies were cross-sectional, while 13 studies [26][27][28][29][30][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39] used a convenience sample method and one study [31] used a purposeful sampling method. Assessment of adverse events was self-reported through questionnaires in 13 studies [26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][37][38][39], while in one study [36] a clinical diagnosis was performed.…”

“…All studies were cross-sectional, while 13 studies [26][27][28][29][30][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39] used a convenience sample method and one study [31] used a purposeful sampling method. Assessment of adverse events was self-reported through questionnaires in 13 studies [26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][37][38][39], while in one study [36] a clinical diagnosis was performed. All studies were published in journals and seven studies [26,28,29,31,32,38,39] reported response rate.…”

“…Quality assessment of cross-sectional studies included in this systematic review is shown in Table 2. Quality was poor in nine studies [26,29,31,[33][34][35][36][37]39] and moderate in five studies [27,28,30,32,38].…”

“…Eleven studies [26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]35,38,39] investigated risk factors for adverse events among HCWs due to personal protective equipment use during COVID-19 pandemic (Table 5). Six studies [21,27,28,32,38,39] used multivariable models to eliminate confounding factors, while all studies except one [33] measured the occurrence of any adverse event as the dependent variable.…”