Characteristics, causes and impact of headache among a sample of physicians working during COVID-19 pandemic

BACKGROUND: Headache is considered a common health problem affecting physicians during Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic and has direct impact on their productivity. Wearing personal protective equipment (PPE), stress and lack of sleep are common factors affecting their headache. RESULTS: O...

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Autores principales: Farag, Sherien, ElSadek, Ahmed, Salah-Eldin, Waleed, Georgy, Shady Samy, Fathy, Mai
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9281347/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35855737
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41983-022-00520-7
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ElSadek, Ahmed
Salah-Eldin, Waleed
Georgy, Shady Samy
Fathy, Mai
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description BACKGROUND: Headache is considered a common health problem affecting physicians during Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic and has direct impact on their productivity. Wearing personal protective equipment (PPE), stress and lack of sleep are common factors affecting their headache. RESULTS: Out of 165 participants, 38(23%) experienced new onset headache. Participants using Combined Face and eye PPE usage were at higher risk of developing headache compared to single PPE users, Participants wearing face shield were at higher risk of developing headache compared to eyewear non users. CONCLUSION: COVID-19 hospital’s physicians may experience new-onset headache or change in their previously existing headache, mostly disposed by PPE eyewear and combined face and eye PPE.
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spelling pubmed-92813472022-07-14 Characteristics, causes and impact of headache among a sample of physicians working during COVID-19 pandemic Farag, Sherien ElSadek, Ahmed Salah-Eldin, Waleed Georgy, Shady Samy Fathy, Mai Egypt J Neurol Psychiatr Neurosurg Research BACKGROUND: Headache is considered a common health problem affecting physicians during Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic and has direct impact on their productivity. Wearing personal protective equipment (PPE), stress and lack of sleep are common factors affecting their headache. RESULTS: Out of 165 participants, 38(23%) experienced new onset headache. Participants using Combined Face and eye PPE usage were at higher risk of developing headache compared to single PPE users, Participants wearing face shield were at higher risk of developing headache compared to eyewear non users. CONCLUSION: COVID-19 hospital’s physicians may experience new-onset headache or change in their previously existing headache, mostly disposed by PPE eyewear and combined face and eye PPE. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022-07-14 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9281347/ /pubmed/35855737 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41983-022-00520-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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