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Missouri K-12 school disaster and biological event preparedness and seasonal influenza vaccination among school nurses
BACKGROUND: School preparedness for bioevents, such as emerging infectious diseases, bioterrorism, and pandemics, is imperative, but historically has been low. METHODS: The Missouri Association of School Nurses members were sent an online survey during the 2013-2014 school year to assess current bio...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7132682/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26432012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2015.06.009 |
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author | Rebmann, Terri Elliott, Michael B. Artman, Deborah VanNatta, Matthew Wakefield, Mary |
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description | BACKGROUND: School preparedness for bioevents, such as emerging infectious diseases, bioterrorism, and pandemics, is imperative, but historically has been low. METHODS: The Missouri Association of School Nurses members were sent an online survey during the 2013-2014 school year to assess current bioevent readiness. There were 15 and 35 indicators of school disaster and bioevent preparedness, respectively. Multivariate linear regressions were conducted to delineate factors associated with higher school disaster and bioevent preparedness scores. RESULTS: In total, 133 school nurses participated, with a 33.6% response rate. On average, schools had fewer than half of the disaster or bioevent indicators. Disaster and bioevent preparedness scores ranged from 1-12.5 (mean, 6.0) and 5-25 (mean, 13.8), respectively. The least frequently reported plan components included bioterrorism-specific psychological needs addressed (1.5%, n = 2), having a foodservice biosecurity plan (8.3%, n = 11), and having a liberal sick leave policy for bioevents (22.6%, n = 30). Determinants of better bioevent preparedness include perception that the school is well prepared for a pandemic (P = .001) or natural disaster (P < .05), nurse being on the disaster planning committee (P = .001), and school being a closed point of dispensing (P < .05). CONCLUSION: Schools are underprepared for biological events and are not on track to meet state and national biological preparedness goals. |
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spelling | pubmed-71326822020-04-08 Missouri K-12 school disaster and biological event preparedness and seasonal influenza vaccination among school nurses Rebmann, Terri Elliott, Michael B. Artman, Deborah VanNatta, Matthew Wakefield, Mary Am J Infect Control Article BACKGROUND: School preparedness for bioevents, such as emerging infectious diseases, bioterrorism, and pandemics, is imperative, but historically has been low. METHODS: The Missouri Association of School Nurses members were sent an online survey during the 2013-2014 school year to assess current bioevent readiness. There were 15 and 35 indicators of school disaster and bioevent preparedness, respectively. Multivariate linear regressions were conducted to delineate factors associated with higher school disaster and bioevent preparedness scores. RESULTS: In total, 133 school nurses participated, with a 33.6% response rate. On average, schools had fewer than half of the disaster or bioevent indicators. Disaster and bioevent preparedness scores ranged from 1-12.5 (mean, 6.0) and 5-25 (mean, 13.8), respectively. The least frequently reported plan components included bioterrorism-specific psychological needs addressed (1.5%, n = 2), having a foodservice biosecurity plan (8.3%, n = 11), and having a liberal sick leave policy for bioevents (22.6%, n = 30). Determinants of better bioevent preparedness include perception that the school is well prepared for a pandemic (P = .001) or natural disaster (P < .05), nurse being on the disaster planning committee (P = .001), and school being a closed point of dispensing (P < .05). CONCLUSION: Schools are underprepared for biological events and are not on track to meet state and national biological preparedness goals. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Mosby, Inc. 2015-10-01 2015-09-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7132682/ /pubmed/26432012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2015.06.009 Text en Copyright © 2015 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Mosby, Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Rebmann, Terri Elliott, Michael B. Artman, Deborah VanNatta, Matthew Wakefield, Mary Missouri K-12 school disaster and biological event preparedness and seasonal influenza vaccination among school nurses |
title | Missouri K-12 school disaster and biological event preparedness and seasonal influenza vaccination among school nurses |
title_full | Missouri K-12 school disaster and biological event preparedness and seasonal influenza vaccination among school nurses |
title_fullStr | Missouri K-12 school disaster and biological event preparedness and seasonal influenza vaccination among school nurses |
title_full_unstemmed | Missouri K-12 school disaster and biological event preparedness and seasonal influenza vaccination among school nurses |
title_short | Missouri K-12 school disaster and biological event preparedness and seasonal influenza vaccination among school nurses |
title_sort | missouri k-12 school disaster and biological event preparedness and seasonal influenza vaccination among school nurses |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7132682/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26432012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2015.06.009 |
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