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Knowledge, attitudes and practices of healthcare workers during the early COVID-19 pandemic in a main, academic tertiary care centre in Saudi Arabia
As the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) continues to occur in small outbreaks in Saudi Arabia, we aimed to assess the knowledge, attitudes and intended practices of healthcare workers (HCWs) during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic and compare worry levels with previous...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7492582/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32854806 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268820001958 |
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author | Temsah, M. H. Alhuzaimi, A. N. Alamro, N. Alrabiaah, A. Al-Sohime, F. Alhasan, K. Kari, J. A. Almaghlouth, I. Aljamaan, F. Al-Eyadhy, A. Jamal, A. Al Amri, M. Barry, M. Al-Subaie, S. Somily, A. M. Al-Zamil, F. |
author_facet | Temsah, M. H. Alhuzaimi, A. N. Alamro, N. Alrabiaah, A. Al-Sohime, F. Alhasan, K. Kari, J. A. Almaghlouth, I. Aljamaan, F. Al-Eyadhy, A. Jamal, A. Al Amri, M. Barry, M. Al-Subaie, S. Somily, A. M. Al-Zamil, F. |
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description | As the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) continues to occur in small outbreaks in Saudi Arabia, we aimed to assess the knowledge, attitudes and intended practices of healthcare workers (HCWs) during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic and compare worry levels with previous findings during the MERS-CoV outbreak in 2015. We sent an adapted version of our previously published MERS-CoV questionnaire to the same cohort of HCWs at a tertiary hospital in Saudi Arabia. About 40% of our sample had previous experience with confirmed or suspected MERS-CoV patients, and those had a significantly higher knowledge score (13.16 ± 2.02 vs. 12.58 ± 2.27, P = 0.002) and higher adherence to protective hygienic practices (2.95 ± 0.80 vs. 2.74 ± 0.92, P = 0.003). The knowledge scores on COVID-19 were higher in the current cohort than the previous MERS-CoV outbreak cohort (68% vs. 79.7%, P < 0.001). HCWs from the current cohort who felt greater anxiety from COVID-19 compared to MERS-CoV were less likely to have been exposed to MERS-CoV infected/suspected cases (odds ratio (OR) = 0.646, P = 0.042) and were less likely to have attended the hospital awareness campaign on COVID-19 (OR = 0.654, P = 0.035). We concluded that previous experience with MERS-CoV was associated with increased knowledge and adherence to protective hygienic practices, and reduction of anxiety towards COVID-19. |
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spelling | pubmed-74925822020-09-16 Knowledge, attitudes and practices of healthcare workers during the early COVID-19 pandemic in a main, academic tertiary care centre in Saudi Arabia Temsah, M. H. Alhuzaimi, A. N. Alamro, N. Alrabiaah, A. Al-Sohime, F. Alhasan, K. Kari, J. A. Almaghlouth, I. Aljamaan, F. Al-Eyadhy, A. Jamal, A. Al Amri, M. Barry, M. Al-Subaie, S. Somily, A. M. Al-Zamil, F. Epidemiol Infect Original Paper As the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) continues to occur in small outbreaks in Saudi Arabia, we aimed to assess the knowledge, attitudes and intended practices of healthcare workers (HCWs) during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic and compare worry levels with previous findings during the MERS-CoV outbreak in 2015. We sent an adapted version of our previously published MERS-CoV questionnaire to the same cohort of HCWs at a tertiary hospital in Saudi Arabia. About 40% of our sample had previous experience with confirmed or suspected MERS-CoV patients, and those had a significantly higher knowledge score (13.16 ± 2.02 vs. 12.58 ± 2.27, P = 0.002) and higher adherence to protective hygienic practices (2.95 ± 0.80 vs. 2.74 ± 0.92, P = 0.003). The knowledge scores on COVID-19 were higher in the current cohort than the previous MERS-CoV outbreak cohort (68% vs. 79.7%, P < 0.001). HCWs from the current cohort who felt greater anxiety from COVID-19 compared to MERS-CoV were less likely to have been exposed to MERS-CoV infected/suspected cases (odds ratio (OR) = 0.646, P = 0.042) and were less likely to have attended the hospital awareness campaign on COVID-19 (OR = 0.654, P = 0.035). We concluded that previous experience with MERS-CoV was associated with increased knowledge and adherence to protective hygienic practices, and reduction of anxiety towards COVID-19. Cambridge University Press 2020-08-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7492582/ /pubmed/32854806 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268820001958 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Temsah, M. H. Alhuzaimi, A. N. Alamro, N. Alrabiaah, A. Al-Sohime, F. Alhasan, K. Kari, J. A. Almaghlouth, I. Aljamaan, F. Al-Eyadhy, A. Jamal, A. Al Amri, M. Barry, M. Al-Subaie, S. Somily, A. M. Al-Zamil, F. Knowledge, attitudes and practices of healthcare workers during the early COVID-19 pandemic in a main, academic tertiary care centre in Saudi Arabia |
title | Knowledge, attitudes and practices of healthcare workers during the early COVID-19 pandemic in a main, academic tertiary care centre in Saudi Arabia |
title_full | Knowledge, attitudes and practices of healthcare workers during the early COVID-19 pandemic in a main, academic tertiary care centre in Saudi Arabia |
title_fullStr | Knowledge, attitudes and practices of healthcare workers during the early COVID-19 pandemic in a main, academic tertiary care centre in Saudi Arabia |
title_full_unstemmed | Knowledge, attitudes and practices of healthcare workers during the early COVID-19 pandemic in a main, academic tertiary care centre in Saudi Arabia |
title_short | Knowledge, attitudes and practices of healthcare workers during the early COVID-19 pandemic in a main, academic tertiary care centre in Saudi Arabia |
title_sort | knowledge, attitudes and practices of healthcare workers during the early covid-19 pandemic in a main, academic tertiary care centre in saudi arabia |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7492582/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32854806 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268820001958 |
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