Prevalence and Severity of COVID-19 and Missed Job Opportunities among Healthcare Workers in Mazandaran Province, February-June 2020
Background and purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an uncontrolled disease burden on healthcare workers (HCWs) worldwide. We aimed to investigate the prevalence and severity of COVID-19 in HCWs of selected hospitals in Mazandaran province and examine the association between COVID-19 and misse...
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| author | Farhang Babamahmoodi Ahmad Alikhani Masoud Maboudi Jamshid Yazdani Charati Bita Paknezhad Amir Hossein Gharib Azadeh Khalatbari |
| author_facet | Farhang Babamahmoodi Ahmad Alikhani Masoud Maboudi Jamshid Yazdani Charati Bita Paknezhad Amir Hossein Gharib Azadeh Khalatbari |
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| description | Background and purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an uncontrolled disease burden on healthcare workers (HCWs) worldwide. We aimed to investigate the prevalence and severity of COVID-19 in HCWs of selected hospitals in Mazandaran province and examine the association between COVID-19 and missed opportunities of HCWs.
Materials and methods: In this retrospective descriptive-analytical study, 1105 HCWs in Qaemshahr Razi Hospital and Sari Fatemeh-Zahra Hospital were studied between February 2020 and June 2020. In order to evaluate the frequency and severity of the disease, clinical and paraclinical manifestations were recorded by a trained HCW. Data were analyzed in SPSS V18.
Results: The frequency of COVID-19 was 16.19% among HCWs. The patients included 113 (63.13%) nurses, 47(26.26%) service providers and administrative personnel, and 19(10.61%) physicians. Duration of sick leave was found to be significantly associated with severity of COVID-19 (P=0.006). This length was also significantly associated with the job and was longer in nurses (P=0.013). Our findings revealed a significant relationship between the level of adherence to personal protective equipment (PPE) and the severity of COVID-19 (P=0.001).
Conclusion: COVID-19 could exert remarkable impact on the quality of work in HCWs, especially among nurses. Effective training of HCWs regarding PPE instructions results in suitable protection against severe forms of the disease. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8c494708aaa84d50ad61bf43d1b2744c2023-02-28T08:19:07ZengMazandaran University of Medical SciencesJournal of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences1735-92601735-92792023-01-01322178795Prevalence and Severity of COVID-19 and Missed Job Opportunities among Healthcare Workers in Mazandaran Province, February-June 2020Farhang Babamahmoodi0Ahmad Alikhani1Masoud Maboudi2Jamshid Yazdani Charati3Bita Paknezhad4Amir Hossein Gharib5Azadeh Khalatbari6 Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases, Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, Communicable Diseases Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran Associate Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases, Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, Communicable Diseases Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran Assistant Professor, Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, Communicable Diseases Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Health Sciences Research Center, Addiction Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran Pediatric Specialist, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran Infectious Disease Specialist, Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, Communicable Diseases Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran General Practitioner, Antimicrobial Resistance Research Centre and Communicable Diseases Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran Background and purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an uncontrolled disease burden on healthcare workers (HCWs) worldwide. We aimed to investigate the prevalence and severity of COVID-19 in HCWs of selected hospitals in Mazandaran province and examine the association between COVID-19 and missed opportunities of HCWs. Materials and methods: In this retrospective descriptive-analytical study, 1105 HCWs in Qaemshahr Razi Hospital and Sari Fatemeh-Zahra Hospital were studied between February 2020 and June 2020. In order to evaluate the frequency and severity of the disease, clinical and paraclinical manifestations were recorded by a trained HCW. Data were analyzed in SPSS V18. Results: The frequency of COVID-19 was 16.19% among HCWs. The patients included 113 (63.13%) nurses, 47(26.26%) service providers and administrative personnel, and 19(10.61%) physicians. Duration of sick leave was found to be significantly associated with severity of COVID-19 (P=0.006). This length was also significantly associated with the job and was longer in nurses (P=0.013). Our findings revealed a significant relationship between the level of adherence to personal protective equipment (PPE) and the severity of COVID-19 (P=0.001). Conclusion: COVID-19 could exert remarkable impact on the quality of work in HCWs, especially among nurses. Effective training of HCWs regarding PPE instructions results in suitable protection against severe forms of the disease.http://jmums.mazums.ac.ir/article-1-18722-en.htmlcovid-19healthcare workerpersonal protective equipment |
| spellingShingle | Farhang Babamahmoodi Ahmad Alikhani Masoud Maboudi Jamshid Yazdani Charati Bita Paknezhad Amir Hossein Gharib Azadeh Khalatbari Prevalence and Severity of COVID-19 and Missed Job Opportunities among Healthcare Workers in Mazandaran Province, February-June 2020 Journal of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences covid-19 healthcare worker personal protective equipment |
| title | Prevalence and Severity of COVID-19 and Missed Job Opportunities among Healthcare Workers in Mazandaran Province, February-June 2020 |
| title_full | Prevalence and Severity of COVID-19 and Missed Job Opportunities among Healthcare Workers in Mazandaran Province, February-June 2020 |
| title_fullStr | Prevalence and Severity of COVID-19 and Missed Job Opportunities among Healthcare Workers in Mazandaran Province, February-June 2020 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Prevalence and Severity of COVID-19 and Missed Job Opportunities among Healthcare Workers in Mazandaran Province, February-June 2020 |
| title_short | Prevalence and Severity of COVID-19 and Missed Job Opportunities among Healthcare Workers in Mazandaran Province, February-June 2020 |
| title_sort | prevalence and severity of covid 19 and missed job opportunities among healthcare workers in mazandaran province february june 2020 |
| topic | covid-19 healthcare worker personal protective equipment |
| url | http://jmums.mazums.ac.ir/article-1-18722-en.html |
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