Hospital-wide SARS-CoV-2 antibody screening of staff in a university psychiatric centre in Belgium

In this first serosurvey among psychiatric healthcare providers, only 3.2% of a sample of 431 staff members of a Belgian University Psychiatric Centre, screened 3–17 June 2020, had SARS-CoV-2 immunoglobulin G antibodies, which is considerably lower compared with both the general population and other...

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Autores principales: El Abdellati, Kawtar, Coppens, Violette, Goossens, Jobbe, Theeten, Heidi, Van Damme, Pierre, Berens, Ann, Morrens, Manuel, De Picker, Livia
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7844164/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33468277
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2020.172
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author El Abdellati, Kawtar
Coppens, Violette
Goossens, Jobbe
Theeten, Heidi
Van Damme, Pierre
Berens, Ann
Morrens, Manuel
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description In this first serosurvey among psychiatric healthcare providers, only 3.2% of a sample of 431 staff members of a Belgian University Psychiatric Centre, screened 3–17 June 2020, had SARS-CoV-2 immunoglobulin G antibodies, which is considerably lower compared with both the general population and other healthcare workers in Belgium. The low seroprevalence was unexpected, given the limited availability of personal protective equipment and the high amount of COVID-19 symptoms reported by staff members. Importantly, exposure at home predicted the presence of antibodies, but exposure at work did not. Measures to prevent transmission from staff to patients are warranted in psychiatric facilities.
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spelling pubmed-78441642021-02-01 Hospital-wide SARS-CoV-2 antibody screening of staff in a university psychiatric centre in Belgium El Abdellati, Kawtar Coppens, Violette Goossens, Jobbe Theeten, Heidi Van Damme, Pierre Berens, Ann Morrens, Manuel De Picker, Livia BJPsych Open Short Report In this first serosurvey among psychiatric healthcare providers, only 3.2% of a sample of 431 staff members of a Belgian University Psychiatric Centre, screened 3–17 June 2020, had SARS-CoV-2 immunoglobulin G antibodies, which is considerably lower compared with both the general population and other healthcare workers in Belgium. The low seroprevalence was unexpected, given the limited availability of personal protective equipment and the high amount of COVID-19 symptoms reported by staff members. Importantly, exposure at home predicted the presence of antibodies, but exposure at work did not. Measures to prevent transmission from staff to patients are warranted in psychiatric facilities. Cambridge University Press 2021-01-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7844164/ /pubmed/33468277 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2020.172 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 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.
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El Abdellati, Kawtar
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De Picker, Livia
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title_fullStr Hospital-wide SARS-CoV-2 antibody screening of staff in a university psychiatric centre in Belgium
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33468277
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2020.172
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