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Knowledge of COVID-19 among Brazilian health care professionals and associated factors

Health care professional's knowledge is essential to contain epidemics. This research aimed to evaluate the knowledge of Brazilian health care professionals regarding COVID-19 to analyze whether there is a difference in knowledge between professionals in Primary Health Care and those in other l...

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Autores principales: Bernardes, João Marcos, Magalhães, Daniela Mendes dos Santos, Alonso, Melissa Spröesser, Gómez-Salgado, Juan, Ruiz-Frutos, Carlos, Romero, Adolfo, Días, Adriano
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Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9276308/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35713424
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000029067
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author Bernardes, João Marcos
Magalhães, Daniela Mendes dos Santos
Alonso, Melissa Spröesser
Gómez-Salgado, Juan
Ruiz-Frutos, Carlos
Romero, Adolfo
Días, Adriano
author_facet Bernardes, João Marcos
Magalhães, Daniela Mendes dos Santos
Alonso, Melissa Spröesser
Gómez-Salgado, Juan
Ruiz-Frutos, Carlos
Romero, Adolfo
Días, Adriano
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description Health care professional's knowledge is essential to contain epidemics. This research aimed to evaluate the knowledge of Brazilian health care professionals regarding COVID-19 to analyze whether there is a difference in knowledge between professionals in Primary Health Care and those in other levels of care or not; and to identify factors associated with knowledge. This is a cross-sectional study, including 716 participants who answered an online questionnaire between April and May 2020. Descriptive statistics, difference tests between groups, and logistic regression models were used to analyze the data. The average knowledge score was 12.42 points (out of a possible total of 15). There was no significant difference between professionals in Primary Health Care and those in other levels of care. Knowledge was associated with age, profession, perception regarding media's information quality, and hours exposed to information on COVID-19. Participants showed adequate knowledge, despite some specific gaps. Continuing education actions should prioritize younger nonmedical professionals.
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spelling pubmed-92763082022-07-13 Knowledge of COVID-19 among Brazilian health care professionals and associated factors Bernardes, João Marcos Magalhães, Daniela Mendes dos Santos Alonso, Melissa Spröesser Gómez-Salgado, Juan Ruiz-Frutos, Carlos Romero, Adolfo Días, Adriano Medicine (Baltimore) 6600 Health care professional's knowledge is essential to contain epidemics. This research aimed to evaluate the knowledge of Brazilian health care professionals regarding COVID-19 to analyze whether there is a difference in knowledge between professionals in Primary Health Care and those in other levels of care or not; and to identify factors associated with knowledge. This is a cross-sectional study, including 716 participants who answered an online questionnaire between April and May 2020. Descriptive statistics, difference tests between groups, and logistic regression models were used to analyze the data. The average knowledge score was 12.42 points (out of a possible total of 15). There was no significant difference between professionals in Primary Health Care and those in other levels of care. Knowledge was associated with age, profession, perception regarding media's information quality, and hours exposed to information on COVID-19. Participants showed adequate knowledge, despite some specific gaps. Continuing education actions should prioritize younger nonmedical professionals. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2022-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9276308/ /pubmed/35713424 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000029067 Text en Copyright © 2022 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License 4.0 (CCBY-NC), where it is permissible to download, share, remix, transform, and buildup the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be used commercially without permission from the journal. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic or until permissions are revoked in writing. Upon expiration of these permissions, PMC is granted a perpetual license to make this article available via PMC and Europe PMC, consistent with existing copyright protections.
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Días, Adriano
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