Sick leave characteristics among nurses of a referral hospital during COVID-19 epidemic
Hospital-related infections have been widely reported during the Covid -19 outbreak that exposes healthcare professionals to at greater risk of infection. This cross-sectional study was designed to evaluate the frequency of absenteeism in hospital staff during the first and second months of the Covi...
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Tehran University of Medical Sciences
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| author | Arezoo Najafi khosro sadeghniiat haghighi Esmaeil Mohammadnejad Seyed Ali Dehghan Manshadi Nazanin Izadi |
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| description | Hospital-related infections have been widely reported during the Covid -19 outbreak that exposes healthcare professionals to at greater risk of infection. This cross-sectional study was designed to evaluate the frequency of absenteeism in hospital staff during the first and second months of the Covid-19 epidemic, from 26 February until 19 April 2020. Occupational data and sickness absenteeism characteristics were collected from the records of the nursing management department. 304 (17.8%) had sick leave due to coronavirus or corona like symptoms. nurses and then nursing aid workers constituted the categories with more frequency of sick leave. The more median days of sick leave were observed among supervisors and midwives. About 80% of participants had typical symptoms of Coronavirus. In conclusion, the median days of sick leave due to coronavirus were not as high as we thought. This could be due to human resource shortage and insufficient knowledge regarding return to work guidelines in the early phase of this epidemic |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6555bc31f2544595966745bc4f408c212022-12-21T23:37:16ZengTehran University of Medical SciencesActa Medica Iranica0044-60251735-96942021-11-0159960310.18502/acta.v59i10.77659082Sick leave characteristics among nurses of a referral hospital during COVID-19 epidemicArezoo Najafikhosro sadeghniiat haghighiEsmaeil MohammadnejadSeyed Ali Dehghan ManshadiNazanin IzadiHospital-related infections have been widely reported during the Covid -19 outbreak that exposes healthcare professionals to at greater risk of infection. This cross-sectional study was designed to evaluate the frequency of absenteeism in hospital staff during the first and second months of the Covid-19 epidemic, from 26 February until 19 April 2020. Occupational data and sickness absenteeism characteristics were collected from the records of the nursing management department. 304 (17.8%) had sick leave due to coronavirus or corona like symptoms. nurses and then nursing aid workers constituted the categories with more frequency of sick leave. The more median days of sick leave were observed among supervisors and midwives. About 80% of participants had typical symptoms of Coronavirus. In conclusion, the median days of sick leave due to coronavirus were not as high as we thought. This could be due to human resource shortage and insufficient knowledge regarding return to work guidelines in the early phase of this epidemichttps://acta.tums.ac.ir/index.php/acta/article/view/9082covid-19coronavirushospital staffsickness absenteeism |
| spellingShingle | Arezoo Najafi khosro sadeghniiat haghighi Esmaeil Mohammadnejad Seyed Ali Dehghan Manshadi Nazanin Izadi Sick leave characteristics among nurses of a referral hospital during COVID-19 epidemic Acta Medica Iranica covid-19 coronavirus hospital staff sickness absenteeism |
| title | Sick leave characteristics among nurses of a referral hospital during COVID-19 epidemic |
| title_full | Sick leave characteristics among nurses of a referral hospital during COVID-19 epidemic |
| title_fullStr | Sick leave characteristics among nurses of a referral hospital during COVID-19 epidemic |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sick leave characteristics among nurses of a referral hospital during COVID-19 epidemic |
| title_short | Sick leave characteristics among nurses of a referral hospital during COVID-19 epidemic |
| title_sort | sick leave characteristics among nurses of a referral hospital during covid 19 epidemic |
| topic | covid-19 coronavirus hospital staff sickness absenteeism |
| url | https://acta.tums.ac.ir/index.php/acta/article/view/9082 |
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