Assessment of Infection Risk of Covid-19 among Health CareWorkers in a Tertiary Health Care Facility
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.47363/JCET/2021(2)118Keywords:
Healthcare workers, COVID-19, Frontline Workers, PPE, SARS- CoVAbstract
Introduction: Health care providers are working round the clock in their fight against COVID-19. Appropriate measures are taken by the hospital administration and also healthcare providers for the protection of patients as well as for them. This study is taken up to assess infection risk of COVID-19 among healthcare providers about infection, prevention, and practices in a tertiary healthcare facility. Objectives
• To assess the infection risk among healthcare providers in a tertiary health care facility
• To compare the risk of infection among various healthcare providers.
• To determine the association of risk of infection with the various sociodemographic factors (if any).
Material & Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 60 consultants,64 resident doctors,68 nursing staff workers, and 50 class IV workers working as the frontline workers in COVID-19. A predesigned and pretested questionnaire will be self-administered to the personals. Data will be collected & tabulated on an MS Excel sheet & the result will be drawn using appropriate statistical tools. The study period designated for the study is 2 months.
Results: The majority of the responders were from the age group of 25-35years (n =116). Approximately 72.4% (n = 175) of the responders were males and 68.3% (165) of the responders were females working in the COVID pandemic healthcare management. The overall mean risk score among healthcare providers was found to be high in nurses with mean risk score of 21.33 and low in consultants with mean risk score of 10.73
Conclusions: Contributing factors for low risk were less exposure to COVID-19 infected patients due to limited working hours. The duties assigned to them were mainly administrative, management and supervision related tasks. Hence, mild risk. Contributing factors for high risk was more exposure to COVID-19 infected patients due to more patient contact period. Also, more exposure to COVID-19 infected patients due to more patient contact period. Poor knowledge regarding infection control practices.
