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Adverse effects of personnel protective equipment among first line COVID-19 healthcare professionals: A survey in Southern Tunisia

BACKGROUND: Health care professionals (HCP) were obliged to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) during pandemic in order to minimize the risk of transmission of the emerging virus. The objective of the study was to estimate the prevalence of adverse effects related to the wear of PPE among HCP...

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Autores principales: Baklouti, Mouna, Ben Ayed, Houda, Maamri, Hanen, Ketata, Nouha, Rhila, Firas, Yaich, Sourour, Karray, Raouf, Jdidi, Jihene, Mejdoub, Yosra, Kassis, Mondher, Feki, Habib, Dammak, Jamel
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Australasian College for Infection Prevention and Control. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9276802/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35927168
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idh.2022.06.001
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author Baklouti, Mouna
Ben Ayed, Houda
Maamri, Hanen
Ketata, Nouha
Rhila, Firas
Yaich, Sourour
Karray, Raouf
Jdidi, Jihene
Mejdoub, Yosra
Kassis, Mondher
Feki, Habib
Dammak, Jamel
author_facet Baklouti, Mouna
Ben Ayed, Houda
Maamri, Hanen
Ketata, Nouha
Rhila, Firas
Yaich, Sourour
Karray, Raouf
Jdidi, Jihene
Mejdoub, Yosra
Kassis, Mondher
Feki, Habib
Dammak, Jamel
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description BACKGROUND: Health care professionals (HCP) were obliged to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) during pandemic in order to minimize the risk of transmission of the emerging virus. The objective of the study was to estimate the prevalence of adverse effects related to the wear of PPE among HCP and to determinate their predictive factors. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study including a representative sample of 300 randomized HCP at Hedi Chaker University Hospital Sfax, Tunisia, during the period August-September 2021. Data collection was carried out by an anonymous self-administered questionnaire. RESULTS: PPE related adverse effects were noted among 87 HCP with a prevalence of 57.2%. Multivariate analysis showed that factors independently associated with PPE adverse effects were female gender (Adjusted Odds Ratio (AOR) = 1.8; p = 0.048), chronic diseases (AOR = 0.29; p = 0.001) and previous infection with COVID-19 (AOR = 0.46; p = 0.004). Frequent use of bleach or other disinfection product without protection and use of hot water at work were independently associated with a high risk of adverse effects ((AOR = 2.22; p = 0.003) and (AOR = 2.83; p = 0.005), respectively). Similarly, a duration of use of PPE>4 h per day (AOR = 1.98; p = 0.039), as well as use of visors and/or glasses (AOR = 1.84; p = 0.045) were independently associated with PPE related adverse effects. CONCLUSION: The prevalence of adverse effects related to the wear of PPE was alarmingly high among HCP. Multiple risk factors were highlighted, notably professional aspects. Adequate and repetitive training for caregivers on the correct use of PPE remain essential to manage this problem.
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spelling pubmed-92768022022-07-14 Adverse effects of personnel protective equipment among first line COVID-19 healthcare professionals: A survey in Southern Tunisia Baklouti, Mouna Ben Ayed, Houda Maamri, Hanen Ketata, Nouha Rhila, Firas Yaich, Sourour Karray, Raouf Jdidi, Jihene Mejdoub, Yosra Kassis, Mondher Feki, Habib Dammak, Jamel Infect Dis Health Research Paper BACKGROUND: Health care professionals (HCP) were obliged to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) during pandemic in order to minimize the risk of transmission of the emerging virus. The objective of the study was to estimate the prevalence of adverse effects related to the wear of PPE among HCP and to determinate their predictive factors. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study including a representative sample of 300 randomized HCP at Hedi Chaker University Hospital Sfax, Tunisia, during the period August-September 2021. Data collection was carried out by an anonymous self-administered questionnaire. RESULTS: PPE related adverse effects were noted among 87 HCP with a prevalence of 57.2%. Multivariate analysis showed that factors independently associated with PPE adverse effects were female gender (Adjusted Odds Ratio (AOR) = 1.8; p = 0.048), chronic diseases (AOR = 0.29; p = 0.001) and previous infection with COVID-19 (AOR = 0.46; p = 0.004). Frequent use of bleach or other disinfection product without protection and use of hot water at work were independently associated with a high risk of adverse effects ((AOR = 2.22; p = 0.003) and (AOR = 2.83; p = 0.005), respectively). Similarly, a duration of use of PPE>4 h per day (AOR = 1.98; p = 0.039), as well as use of visors and/or glasses (AOR = 1.84; p = 0.045) were independently associated with PPE related adverse effects. CONCLUSION: The prevalence of adverse effects related to the wear of PPE was alarmingly high among HCP. Multiple risk factors were highlighted, notably professional aspects. Adequate and repetitive training for caregivers on the correct use of PPE remain essential to manage this problem. Australasian College for Infection Prevention and Control. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2023-02 2022-07-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9276802/ /pubmed/35927168 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idh.2022.06.001 Text en © 2022 Australasian College for Infection Prevention and Control. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Baklouti, Mouna
Ben Ayed, Houda
Maamri, Hanen
Ketata, Nouha
Rhila, Firas
Yaich, Sourour
Karray, Raouf
Jdidi, Jihene
Mejdoub, Yosra
Kassis, Mondher
Feki, Habib
Dammak, Jamel
Adverse effects of personnel protective equipment among first line COVID-19 healthcare professionals: A survey in Southern Tunisia
title Adverse effects of personnel protective equipment among first line COVID-19 healthcare professionals: A survey in Southern Tunisia
title_full Adverse effects of personnel protective equipment among first line COVID-19 healthcare professionals: A survey in Southern Tunisia
title_fullStr Adverse effects of personnel protective equipment among first line COVID-19 healthcare professionals: A survey in Southern Tunisia
title_full_unstemmed Adverse effects of personnel protective equipment among first line COVID-19 healthcare professionals: A survey in Southern Tunisia
title_short Adverse effects of personnel protective equipment among first line COVID-19 healthcare professionals: A survey in Southern Tunisia
title_sort adverse effects of personnel protective equipment among first line covid-19 healthcare professionals: a survey in southern tunisia
topic Research Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9276802/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35927168
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idh.2022.06.001
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