Community’s Mask Wearing Practice and its associated Undesirable Side Effects Among Iraqi Population Group in COVID-19 Era

Abstract

Assessing the principles, knowledge, attitude, and compliance of the Iraqi population group with regard to mask use; raising awareness and accountability, counseling them on the value of wearing masks, and researching the most common negative effects of mask use among them.Materials and Methods: 1205 responses to an online survey with a cross-sectional design were gathered from healthy Iraqi backgrounds, ranging in age from 11 to 65 and with varying levels of education. The survey was divided into 5 components that were relevant to the major goals and objectives of the research. Gender differences were expressed as frequencies and percentages using the chi-squared fisher exact test, with statistical significance set at p < 0.05. Data were analyzed using SPSS between various variables.Results: Among the 1205 people enrolled in the study, females comprised of (723,60%), and males (482,40%) with age range (11-65 years old). Concerning adherence to wearing mask:The majority of the sample (73% female, 68% male) were adherent to wearing masks, whereas (25%-28%) were non-adherent, with no significant difference between them owing to uncomfortability, with social stigma being the predominant source of this uncomfortability; the overall sample was 30.80% female and 43% male.Concerning association between health problems side effects of wearing mask: More than half sample (54% females) and (59.7% males) didn't suffer from any health conditions, while (44.40% females, 36.30% males) suffered from health conditions with highly significant difference at p 0.001 sequentially: respiratory problems, psychological problems, and others with non-significant difference between these problems at p 0.18.

Evaluation The Sero-Prevalence of Cytomegalovirus Infection among Abortion Women in Baqubah city

“…Anwar and Al-Bayati, [26] in Samara discovered that 30% of patients were positive for HCMV IgM and 70% were positive for Ali and Al-Ahmer, [27] reported significant levels of CMV IgG positivity 72.3% and HCMV IgM positivity 72.2% in pregnant women who underwent abortions were. In Baquba the finding of Hussein et al [28] showed that 36% HCMV positivity in pregnant women with spontaneous abortion. However, the presence of IgM indicates that the women had recently been infected or re-infected with HCMV, and that the IgM was produced shortly after infection and dissipated within a short period of time.…”