"COVID-19 prevention and control: a study of the knowledge, awareness and attitude towards the disease among radiology departments staff in Sudan"

Lee, Sergey; ROZYBAKIEVA, Zarina; Asimov, M.A.; Bagiyarova, Fatima; Tazhiyeva, Aygul; Ussebayeva, Neilya; Saliev, Timur; Tanabayeva, Shynar; Fakhradiyev, Ildar

doi:10.31688/abmu.2020.55.3.05

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“…Where NGOs provided a high percentage of training on hand hygiene and PPE use, the government should expand its educational and training programs for employees. This is similar to the findings of a study, in Sudan, where 65% of MIWs reported that they had training on hand hygiene, and 75% of them had knowledge about hand hygiene (Elgyoum et al, 2020).…”

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confidence: 89%

“…them. This is similar to study held in Sudan among radiology staff were 90% of respondents reported that the disinfectant should be used after contact with every suspected/confirmed COVID-19 patients (Elgyoum et al, 2020). While in a study among HCWs in radiology departments in Saudi Arabia, there were 67.2% of participants have knowledge about the types of disinfectants and how to prepare them (Aljondi et al, 2020).…”

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confidence: 77%

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Corona virus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov-2) that was first discovered in December, 2019, in Wuhan, China. In March, 2020 World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 as a global pandemic (WHO, 2020). Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) molecular test is the most commonly test used to detect COVID-19 infection (WHO, 2020). But it suffers from low sensitivity (e.g. 60% -70%) in the early detection of COVID-19, due to the false negative rate and the long time for results to show up with respect to the need for rapid decision-making for patients with clinically noticeable pneumonia (Ai et al., 2020;Fang et al., 2020;Li et al., 2020;Yang et al., 2020;Diao et al., 2020). Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) is cheaper and quicker than PCR, but it has a disadvantage of less accuracy (WHO, 2020).Diagnostic imaging examination, mainly high resolution chest computed tomography (HRCT) and chest X-ray (CXR) play a remarkable role in detecting coronavirus disease, chest computed tomography is preferred over CXR because of its accuracy, improved contrast resolution, high sensitivity and ability to diagnose the disease in early phase of development (Zu et al., 2020;Diao et al., 2020;Shi et al. 2020). In detecting pulmonary abnormalities, HRCT is more sensitive than CXR (Ng et al., 2020). Due to their rule in COVID-19 pandemic MIWs should be aware of infection control measures and trained in the use of A B S T R A C TCOVID-19 virus disease is an infectious disease caused by SARS-Cov-2 virus, as the diagnostic imaging department play a remarkable role in detecting and diagnosing of COVID-19 in early stages, therefore, medical imaging workers should be aware of infection control guidelines to prevent the transmission of the disease. A cross-sectional descriptive study survey design was conducted from July 15, 2020 to September 15, 2020, in diagnostic imaging departments in Palestine, aimed to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on medical imaging workers; in terms of infection sources, awareness and commitment to relevant safety guidelines. From a 205 valid responses, there was 54.5% governmental, 27.2% private, and 18.3% from NGOs sector. Female were 26.8% and 81.9% holding BA degree, about 41.2% are less than five years of experience. 36.1% had a previous positive COVID-19 result, of them there was 61.6% due to nosocomial infection. Only 63.2% were confidence of their hospital preparedness for COVID-19, 65.1% felt that their department is capable of dealing with COVID-19 patients, 43.3% revealed that they had training on handling COVID-19 patients, 58.7% reported that selfreading was their source of information about COVID-19, inadequate training or knowledge about hand hygiene and proper use of PPE was noted. Our findings emphasize the vital need of expanded COVID-19 pandemic training for medical imaging workers, as well as related protective measures.

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“…Repeatedly throughout the literature, a theme that uncertainty causes stress and clarity leads to confidence, in other words, knowledge is power is demonstrated clearly. 7e11, 34,36,42,44 With emerging clarity on the process for infection, a trend of reported increase in knowledge and compliance with these infection control procedures are being observed 28,34,36 due to appropriate communication within healthcare units including the radiography departments.…”

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“…Additionally, radiographers observed that their own work-related stress was transferred to their family, partners, and friends. 7,8,14,40,42,44,46,48 Some redeployed radiographers also reported being stressed due to the need to adjust to new working environments and technologies. 7,75,77 Anxiety from these stressors was a commonly reported theme.…”

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“…7e9, 14,42,43 Fear of contracting the infection was widely reported among the radiography workforce across all resource settings. 7e10,12e14, 40,42,44 This contributed poorly to the mental health (including workplacerelated stress and anxiety) and general well-being of all HCWs, including the radiography workforce. 7e10,12e14, 40,45e49 The body of evidence reporting the impact of the pandemic on radiography practice is diverse and variable in terms of its scope (see Tables 1 and 2).…”

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The global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on clinical radiography practice: A systematic literature review and recommendations for future services planning

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Introduction Worldwide, reports and experiences indicate that there has been extensive re-organisation within diagnostic imaging and radiotherapy departments in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This was necessary due to changes in workload and working practice guidelines that have evolved during the pandemic. This review provides a comprehensive summary of the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on radiography practice, service delivery and workforce wellbeing. Methods A systematic review methodology was adopted to obtain data from primary studies of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods designs from databases (PubMed, Science Direct, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature [CINAHL], and SCOPUS: all 2020 to present). The included articles were subjected to information extraction and results-based convergent synthesis. Results The electronic database search yielded 10,420 articles after removal of duplicates. Of these, 31 articles met the final inclusion criteria with some (n = 8) fully focussed on radiotherapy workforce and service delivery. The pandemic impact on radiography practice is broadly themed around: training, communication, and information dissemination; infrastructure, technology, and clinical workflow; and workforce mental health and well-being. Conclusion Globally, most radiographers received inadequate training for managing COVID-19 patients during the initial acute phase of the pandemic. Additionally, there were significant changes to clinical practice, working patterns and perceived increase in workload due to surges in COVID-19 patients and the consequent strict adherence to new infection protocols. These changes, coupled with fear emanating from the increased risk of the workforce to contracting the infection, contributed to anxiety and workplace-related stress during the pandemic. Implications for practice Local pandemic response strategies must be appropriately developed from standard protocols in readiness for safe clinical practice and well-being management training of practitioners.

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