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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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Autores principales: 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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Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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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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