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COVID-19: Establishing, implementing and assessment safety strategy, descriptive interventional study

The increase in severe acute respiratory syndrome SARS-CoV-2 has invariably affected medical professionals in their training, academic and professional development. The present study was an interventional descriptive study aimed at reducing the risk of exposure to COVID-19 and enabling physical atte...

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Autores principales: Alnour, Tarig M. S., Al-Amer, Osama, Saeedi, Nizar Hamed, Shater, Abdullah, Alsuba, Mohamed A., Ahmed-Abakur, Eltayib H.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10022754/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36930592
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283197
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author Alnour, Tarig M. S.
Al-Amer, Osama
Saeedi, Nizar Hamed
Shater, Abdullah
Alsuba, Mohamed A.
Ahmed-Abakur, Eltayib H.
author_facet Alnour, Tarig M. S.
Al-Amer, Osama
Saeedi, Nizar Hamed
Shater, Abdullah
Alsuba, Mohamed A.
Ahmed-Abakur, Eltayib H.
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description The increase in severe acute respiratory syndrome SARS-CoV-2 has invariably affected medical professionals in their training, academic and professional development. The present study was an interventional descriptive study aimed at reducing the risk of exposure to COVID-19 and enabling physical attendance to the practical session for applied medical students by establishing and implementing a safety strategy. The adopted safety strategy has eight conditions and 50 requirements. Compliance with the safety strategy along with the serological diagnosis of COVID-19 was used as a key performance indicator for assessing the efficiency of the safety strategy. A total of 197 students were enrolled at the beginning of the study. The overall results showed that 78.1% of the respondents strictly followed the protocol, 14.5% of the individuals partially responded to the protocol and 7.4% of the individuals did not respond to the protocol. Twenty-two (12.6%) out of the 175 participants who completed the study had positive COVID-19 during the study period, whereas the remaining 153 participants (87.4%) appeared to be healthy. The serological results showed that 68 (38.9%) and 66 (37.7%) individuals of the study population had positive IgM+IgA and IgG of COVID-19, respectively; the majority of the participants who developed antibodies did not show symptoms and appeared to be healthy during the study. The physical distancing condition was the only condition that displayed a significant relationship with seropositive IgM+IgA. The compiling of standardized protocols along with serological diagnoses can be an effective tool in measuring the effectiveness of safety protocol and reducing the risk of exposure to COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-100227542023-03-18 COVID-19: Establishing, implementing and assessment safety strategy, descriptive interventional study Alnour, Tarig M. S. Al-Amer, Osama Saeedi, Nizar Hamed Shater, Abdullah Alsuba, Mohamed A. Ahmed-Abakur, Eltayib H. PLoS One Research Article The increase in severe acute respiratory syndrome SARS-CoV-2 has invariably affected medical professionals in their training, academic and professional development. The present study was an interventional descriptive study aimed at reducing the risk of exposure to COVID-19 and enabling physical attendance to the practical session for applied medical students by establishing and implementing a safety strategy. The adopted safety strategy has eight conditions and 50 requirements. Compliance with the safety strategy along with the serological diagnosis of COVID-19 was used as a key performance indicator for assessing the efficiency of the safety strategy. A total of 197 students were enrolled at the beginning of the study. The overall results showed that 78.1% of the respondents strictly followed the protocol, 14.5% of the individuals partially responded to the protocol and 7.4% of the individuals did not respond to the protocol. Twenty-two (12.6%) out of the 175 participants who completed the study had positive COVID-19 during the study period, whereas the remaining 153 participants (87.4%) appeared to be healthy. The serological results showed that 68 (38.9%) and 66 (37.7%) individuals of the study population had positive IgM+IgA and IgG of COVID-19, respectively; the majority of the participants who developed antibodies did not show symptoms and appeared to be healthy during the study. The physical distancing condition was the only condition that displayed a significant relationship with seropositive IgM+IgA. The compiling of standardized protocols along with serological diagnoses can be an effective tool in measuring the effectiveness of safety protocol and reducing the risk of exposure to COVID-19. Public Library of Science 2023-03-17 /pmc/articles/PMC10022754/ /pubmed/36930592 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283197 Text en © 2023 Alnour et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36930592
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283197
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