COVID-19 Prevention and Control Public Health Strategies in Shanghai, China

Zhang, Ni; Shi, Tianqin; Zhong, Heng; Guo, Yijia

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“…The participants who opted not to go out to public places and wore a mask were considered as firstline prevention in contracting the virus. These findings are in concert with the previous studies conducted in other Asian countries (Ferdous et al, 2020;Neupane et al, 2020;Sulistyawati et al, 2021;Widayati, 2021;Zhang et al, 2020;Zhong et al, 2020;Zhou et al, 2020). The early onset of the pandemic, the Philippines' Department of Health continued the information dissemination campaigns about the importance of handwashing, covering of nose and mouth while coughing and sneezing, use of sanitizers, use of face masks, avoiding contact of fingers with mouth, nose, and eyes (Philippine Daily Inquirer, 2020; Republic of the Philippines, 2020).…”

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Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice toward COVID-19 among Healthy Population in the Philippines

Tuppal

Ninobla²,

Ruiz

et al. 2021

Nurs. Med. J. Nursing

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Background: COVID-19 pandemic has become a severe health threat to the Philippines and around the world. At the early onset of the pandemic, it is imperative to measure the knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) among healthy individuals to better understand the causes, transmission, and preventive measures. Purpose: This study aimed to identify the knowledge, attitude, and practice towards COVID-19 in a healthy Filipino population during the early onset of the pandemic outbreak.Methods: This cross-sectional rapid online and web-based survey was conducted among healthy Filipino population. A total of 1634 subjects participated via the Google survey link. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the respondents' profile characteristics and KAP scores. The One-Way ANOVA or independent sample t-test was used to measure KAP scores' differences when grouped according to respondents' profile characteristics. Pearson correlation was used to measure the relationship among the KAP scores. The data were all analyzed using the SPSS version 26.0. Results: The overall knowledge scores revealed 67.7%. Filipinos believed COVID-19 would finally be successfully controlled and confident that the Philippines can win the battle against the virus through preventive practices. KAP scores showed significant differences with age, sex (p<0.000), and place of residence (p<0.000), occupation (p<0.000), and marital status (p<0.000). A significant positive low correlation between knowledge and practice (r=0.076, p<0.01), attitude and practice (r=0.100, p<0.01).Conclusion: Albeit a low knowledge of COVID-19, healthy Filipino populations had a positive attitude and compliant with the preventive measures. This study hopes to contribute to the growing corpus of literature on COVID-19 to provide evidence-based information towards health promotion, illness prevention, and control of possible virus' spread.

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“…Also, the more positive attitudes that the general population has, the more they would advocate preventive measures. Other studies found similar results (Ferdous et al, 2020;Neupane et al, 2020;Sulistyawati et al, 2021;Widayati, 2021;Zhang et al, 2020;Zhong et al, 2020;Zhou et al, 2020).…”

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Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice toward COVID-19 among Healthy Population in the Philippines

Tuppal

Ninobla²,

Ruiz

et al. 2021

Nurs. Med. J. Nursing

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“…A larger study that incorporates data from the whole country may be able to demonstrate such a correlation. Overall, these data that demonstrate a reduction in COVID-19 infections to near zero by the end of lockdown further support the successful nature of the restriction orders utilized in controlling transmission of COVID-19 in Shanghai (53).…”

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Primary Care General Practice Consultations in a Teaching Hospital in Shanghai, China

Fan

Ding

et al. 2021

Front. Med.

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Background: The COVID-19 (2019 novel coronavirus disease) pandemic is deeply concerning because of its massive mortality and morbidity, creating adverse perceptions among patients likely to impact on their overall medical care. Thus, we evaluated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the pattern of primary care consultations within a Shanghai health district.Methods: A retrospective observational cohort study was performed, with data analyzed concerning the pattern of patient visits to general practitioners within the Tongren Hospital network (the sole provider of general practice to the population of 700,000). Data from all general practice consultations for adults were collected for the first 6 months of 2020, which included a 60-day lockdown period (January 24–March 24, 2020) and compared to corresponding data from the first 6 months of 2019. We evaluated changes to the numbers and patterns of primary care consultations, including subgroup analysis based on age, sex, and primary diagnosis.Results: A substantial reduction in patient visits, associated with increased median age, was observed during the first wave of the pandemic in the first 6 months of 2020, compared to the same interval during 2019. Additionally, reduced reappointments and waiting times, but increased costs per visit were observed. When analyzed by primary disease diagnosis, patient visits were reduced for all the major systems. The most striking visit reductions were in cardiovascular, respiratory, endocrine, and gastrointestinal diseases. However, psychological disorders were increased following lockdown, but there was also a dramatic fall in consultations for depression. Reduced monthly patient numbers correlated with both rate of reappointment and average waiting time during the first 6 months of both 2019 and 2020, but an inverse correlation was observed between cost per visit and monthly patient numbers. Specifically during the lockdown period, there was ~50% reduced patient visits.Conclusions: The lockdown has had a serious impact on patients' physical and psychological health. Our analysis provides objective health-related data that may inform the current controversy concerning the balance between the detrimental effects of the use of lockdown vs. the use of a more targeted approach to eliminate viral transmission. These data may improve decision-making in medical practice, policy, and education.

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“…Students who came from high-risk areas must be conducted home or centralized health surveillance for 14 days. The above measures were also applicable to the prevention of influenza and other respiratory diseases [29,30]. In our study, we found that the proportion of pediatric patients with respiratory infections among total outpatients, the number of completed tests for respiratory viruses and the corresponding positive cases of ADV, FluA, FluB, and RSV did not elevate in March and April compared with the same periods in 2018 and 2019.…”

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Epidemiological and virological characteristics of respiratory tract infections in children during COVID-19 outbreak

Zhu

Yang

et al. 2021

BMC Pediatr

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Background To investigate the impact of protective measures and isolation on respiratory tract infections in children during the COVID-19 outbreak. Methods We extracted data on outpatient visits and respiratory infection visits, and tests of respiratory viruses (adenovirus (ADV), influenza A (FluA), influenza B (FluB) and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)) from electronic healthcare records in Children’s Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine during the COVID-19 outbreak (January–April, 2020), compared with those in 2018 and 2019 during the same periods. Results We found that outpatient visits in January, 2020 was comparable with those in 2018 and 2019, but decreased by 59.9% (288,003 vs. 717,983) and 57.4% (288,003 vs. 676,704), respectively during the period of February-April, 2020, as compared with the same periods in 2018 and 2019. The total number of respiratory tract infections from January to April 2020 decreased by 65.7% (119,532 vs.348,762) and 59.0% (119,532 vs.291,557), respectively compared with the same periods in 2018 and 2019. The proportion of respiratory tract infections during the outbreak also dropped compared with the same periods in 2018 and 2019 (P<0.001). We also found significantly decreased number of completed tests for respiratory viruses and positive cases of ADV, FluA, FluB, and RSV during February-April, 2020. Conclusions In this study, we found that outpatient visits and respiratory tract infections in children significantly decreased during COVID-19 outbreak. Adequate protective measures and isolation in children may help to prevent respiratory virus infections in children.

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COVID-19 Prevention and Control Public Health Strategies in Shanghai, China

Cited by 42 publications

References 5 publications

Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice toward COVID-19 among Healthy Population in the Philippines

Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice toward COVID-19 among Healthy Population in the Philippines

The Impact of COVID-19 on Primary Care General Practice Consultations in a Teaching Hospital in Shanghai, China

Epidemiological and virological characteristics of respiratory tract infections in children during COVID-19 outbreak

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