Self-reported use of and access to personal protective equipment among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 outbreak in Nigeria

Oladele, David; Idigbe, Ifeoma; Musa, Zaidat; Gbaja-Biamila, Titilola; Bamidele, Tajudeen; Ohihoin, Aigbe Gregory; Salako, Abideen; Odubela, Tosin; Aina, Oluwagbemiga; Ohihoin, Esther Ngozi; David, Agatha; Ezechi, Oliver; Odunukwe, N N; Salako, Babatunde Lawal

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e07100

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“…However, studies conducted during the pandemic also revealed problems with supply of personal protective equipment. Oladele et al reported that 55.4% of health workers had problems with finding personal protective equipment [46] while Murat et al reported that 36.1% of nurses had the same problem [38]. 55.3% of nurses in this study reported problems with accessing personal protective equipment which is in line with the literature.…”

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Stress level and sleep quality of nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic

Bilgiç

Çelikkalp

MISIRLI

2021

WOR

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BACKGROUND: COVID-19 infection is transmitted easily and quickly, and nurses constitute the riskiest group of healthcare workers. Therefore, they may experience high levels of stress and sleep problems. OBJECTIVE: This study was conducted in order to evaluate the stress levels and sleep quality of nurses working during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: The cross-sectional study was conducted with 316 nurses working in a pandemic hospital in a city center. A descriptive form, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), and the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) were used to collect data. RESULTS: A positive, moderately significant correlation was found between the average PSQI score of nurses and the average perceived stress score (p≤0.001). Multiple regressions determined that shift work, stress level, a coworker having COVID-19, being out of home due to the risk of transmission, and having a person older than 65 in the home were effective predictors of sleep quality (R2 = 33.5, p≤0.001). Age, years worked, fear of infecting the family with COVID-19, receiving COVID-19 education, regular nutrition, and sleep quality were effective predictors of stress level (R2 = 32.2, p≤0.001). CONCLUSION: It was determined that nurses have low sleep quality and high stress levels during the pandemic process.

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Stress level and sleep quality of nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic

Bilgiç

Çelikkalp

MISIRLI

2021

WOR

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“…The use of appropriate PPE by HCW in this study was recorded among less than a half, similar to another study in Nigeria which reported 44.9%, [26] but much less than 84.4% reported from India. [25] Poor epidemic preparedness and the widespread report of PPE shortages at the pandemic's start contributed immensely to the lack of PPE during the pandemic.…”

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confidence: 87%

“…A crosssectional survey of HCW in Nigeria had reported the facility type and gender as significant predictors of PPE use. [26] An Ethiopian study also reported IPC training and access to IPC guidelines as significantly associated with good COVID-19 behaviour. In contrast, another study from Uganda reported age and educational qualification of HCW as significantly associated with safety practices, but these variables were not significant in the present study.…”

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Knowledge of COVID-19, Use of Personal Protective Equipment and Other Safety Practices of Healthcare Workers in Southwest Nigeria

OJo¹,

Fajobi²,

Babatola³

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Ann Health Res

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Background: Healthcare workers have a higher risk of SARS CoV2 infection with implications for transmission of infection and the safety of workers and patients. Objective: To assess knowledge on COVID-19 and the safety practices among selected healthcare workers in southwest Nigeria. Methods: A cross-sectional study of 210 workers providing direct care to patients during the COVID-19 pandemic was conducted. Respondents were recruited through simple random sampling of members of online platforms of healthcare workers in Osun, Ondo and Ekiti States. Information on sociodemographic characteristics, knowledge of PPE and safety practices was obtained through a close-ended questionnaire. Results: The mean age of the respondents was 36.5±7.5 years. About 29% and 30% of respondents were from the State and Federal Government-owned Teaching Hospitals, respectively. A little above half (58.1%) had good knowledge of COVID-19, while 62.1% used PPE always when attending to suspected COVID19 cases. More than half (53.8%) had been trained on infection prevention and control (IPC), but only 34.3% adhered to good safety practices. Healthcare workers in State government-owned teaching hospitals had lower odds of good safety practices than those in Federal Teaching Hospitals (OR = 0.42, 95% CI = 0.19-0.93, p = 0.031). Conclusion: The knowledge of appropriate PPE and practice of safety precautions among healthcare workers is sub-optimal. This may predispose to increased COVID-19 transmission among healthcare workers, patients, and their families. Training and retraining healthcare workers, especially those from hospitals identified by the study as having poor safety practices, should be encouraged.

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“…In this way, the social working activities and collaborative networks of VHVs can portray how the local community in northeastern Thailand is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Numerous scholars have paid attention to various topics on multiple effects and impacts of the pandemic ( Golar et al 2020 ; Ripon et al 2020 ; Rume & Islam 2020 ; Abbas et al 2021 ; Pongutta et al 2021 ) and certain effective strategies and policies governments and private sectors cope with Covid-19 ( Ejeh et al, 2020 ; Yazdanirad et al 2021 ; Oladele et al 2021 ). As such, however, none of them have explored the important roles of community’s voluntary networks, who facilitate the implementations of healthcare policy in the countryside areas.…”

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Anthropological study of village health volunteers’ (VHVs’) socio-political network in minimizing risk and managing the crisis during COVID-19

Jiaviriyaboonya

2022

Heliyon

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Since the early stage of the pandemic outbreak between 2019-2020, the capacity and preparedness of Thailand in coping with the crisis were reconfirmed with ranking the country sixth among a total of 195 countries in terms of health security and making it the only developing country worldwide on the top 10 list and number1 in Asia. In the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, the Village Health Volunteers (VHVs) play an important role as a representative and gatekeeper of the community in the response to the pandemic. Previous research paid less attention to explore how local communities in the northeast of Thailand are able to prevent themselves from the pandemic by utilizing certain form of local resources. The research pays attention to the roles and functions of VHVs, as well as to the process of social network formation of the VHVs in Nakhon Phanom. It applies anthropological research methods: focus group, observations and in-depth interviews with five VHVs. Following the “network” and “social capital” concepts (Lin 2005), this paper argues that local communities in the northeast of Thailand attempt to cope with the risks and challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic by mobilizing a variety of local resources, and such mobilization is operated and maintained by numerous local agencies or relevant stakeholders. The VHVs formulate “socio-political networks,” or can be seen as a “pluralistic network” based on a “collaborative system” between numerous agents/stakeholders in the community, including VHV groups, villagers, families/households, local politicians/officials, and private sector actors. This research can be used as fundamental research applying to understand the larger societies where community collaborations, social networks, and social capital are key mechanisms empowering agencies to encounter the invasion of a global pandemic.

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Self-reported use of and access to personal protective equipment among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 outbreak in Nigeria

Cited by 15 publications

References 15 publications

Stress level and sleep quality of nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic

Stress level and sleep quality of nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic

Knowledge of COVID-19, Use of Personal Protective Equipment and Other Safety Practices of Healthcare Workers in Southwest Nigeria

Anthropological study of village health volunteers’ (VHVs’) socio-political network in minimizing risk and managing the crisis during COVID-19

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