Wearing of face masks by healthcare workers during COVID-19 lockdown: what did the public observe through the French media?

Wearing a face mask is a major issue in the fight against the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The French general population widely started to wear this personal protective equipment usually dedicated to healthcare workers, without being educated to its correct use. People base their behaviour on wh...

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Autores principales: Picard, J., Cornec, G., Baron, R., Saliou, P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Healthcare Infection Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Short Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7425678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32798641
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2020.08.009
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description Wearing a face mask is a major issue in the fight against the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The French general population widely started to wear this personal protective equipment usually dedicated to healthcare workers, without being educated to its correct use. People base their behaviour on what they see in the media. However, we observed that mask wearing of healthcare workers published in the media during the pandemic only conformed to good practice guidelines in 70.8% of the photographs collected on some of the main French information websites. Health authorities should communicate widely regarding the good practices for mask wearing in the general population.
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spelling pubmed-74256782020-08-14 Wearing of face masks by healthcare workers during COVID-19 lockdown: what did the public observe through the French media? Picard, J. Cornec, G. Baron, R. Saliou, P. J Hosp Infect Short Report Wearing a face mask is a major issue in the fight against the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The French general population widely started to wear this personal protective equipment usually dedicated to healthcare workers, without being educated to its correct use. People base their behaviour on what they see in the media. However, we observed that mask wearing of healthcare workers published in the media during the pandemic only conformed to good practice guidelines in 70.8% of the photographs collected on some of the main French information websites. Health authorities should communicate widely regarding the good practices for mask wearing in the general population. The Healthcare Infection Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020-11 2020-08-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7425678/ /pubmed/32798641 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2020.08.009 Text en © 2020 The Healthcare Infection Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 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.
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