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Infection prevention and control during COVID-19 pandemic: realities from health care workers in a north central state in Nigeria
Health care workers (HCWs) are vulnerable to the risk of infections and could become vectors of onward transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Little is known about the factors which could contribute to increased COVID-19 infection among HCWs in Nigeria. We aimed at assessing the causes...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7844182/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33407965 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268821000017 |
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author | Ilesanmi, O. S. Afolabi, A. A. Akande, A. Raji, T. Mohammed, A. |
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description | Health care workers (HCWs) are vulnerable to the risk of infections and could become vectors of onward transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Little is known about the factors which could contribute to increased COVID-19 infection among HCWs in Nigeria. We aimed at assessing the causes of COVID-19 infection among HCWs. We used a qualitative study design to conduct in-depth interview among 16 frontline HCWs participating in the COVID-19 response in Kwara State, Nigeria. Colaizzi's phenomenological method was used in the qualitative analysis of data. We found that HCWs were aware of their vulnerability to the COVID-19 infection, and the reasons attributed included poor knowledge of IPC measures for COVID-19, inadequate supply of personal protective equipment (PPE), poor political will and inadequate health facilities (HFs) management support. Improved political will and better involvement of HFs management teams in infection prevention and control (IPC) systems are needed to reduce the risk for COVID-19 infection among HCWs. We recommend scale-up training on IPC measures particularly hand washing and use of PPE as well as the development of effective points of care risk assessment with a high index of suspicion in HFs. |
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spelling | pubmed-78441822021-02-01 Infection prevention and control during COVID-19 pandemic: realities from health care workers in a north central state in Nigeria Ilesanmi, O. S. Afolabi, A. A. Akande, A. Raji, T. Mohammed, A. Epidemiol Infect Original Paper Health care workers (HCWs) are vulnerable to the risk of infections and could become vectors of onward transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Little is known about the factors which could contribute to increased COVID-19 infection among HCWs in Nigeria. We aimed at assessing the causes of COVID-19 infection among HCWs. We used a qualitative study design to conduct in-depth interview among 16 frontline HCWs participating in the COVID-19 response in Kwara State, Nigeria. Colaizzi's phenomenological method was used in the qualitative analysis of data. We found that HCWs were aware of their vulnerability to the COVID-19 infection, and the reasons attributed included poor knowledge of IPC measures for COVID-19, inadequate supply of personal protective equipment (PPE), poor political will and inadequate health facilities (HFs) management support. Improved political will and better involvement of HFs management teams in infection prevention and control (IPC) systems are needed to reduce the risk for COVID-19 infection among HCWs. We recommend scale-up training on IPC measures particularly hand washing and use of PPE as well as the development of effective points of care risk assessment with a high index of suspicion in HFs. Cambridge University Press 2021-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7844182/ /pubmed/33407965 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268821000017 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. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Ilesanmi, O. S. Afolabi, A. A. Akande, A. Raji, T. Mohammed, A. Infection prevention and control during COVID-19 pandemic: realities from health care workers in a north central state in Nigeria |
title | Infection prevention and control during COVID-19 pandemic: realities from health care workers in a north central state in Nigeria |
title_full | Infection prevention and control during COVID-19 pandemic: realities from health care workers in a north central state in Nigeria |
title_fullStr | Infection prevention and control during COVID-19 pandemic: realities from health care workers in a north central state in Nigeria |
title_full_unstemmed | Infection prevention and control during COVID-19 pandemic: realities from health care workers in a north central state in Nigeria |
title_short | Infection prevention and control during COVID-19 pandemic: realities from health care workers in a north central state in Nigeria |
title_sort | infection prevention and control during covid-19 pandemic: realities from health care workers in a north central state in nigeria |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7844182/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33407965 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268821000017 |
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