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COVID-19 related fears and adherence to infection control protocol amongst immunocompromised transplant recipients: A case study

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE: Transplant recipients are at a high risk of critical COVID-19 illness due to chronic immunosuppression and their underlying medical condition. Our objective was to study the COVID-19 related fears and adherence to infection control measures in solid organ transplant recip...

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Autores principales: Moazzam, Amena, Naz, Hafeeza, Irfan, Khadija, Mahmood, Zulaikha
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Professional Medical Publications 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9676623/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36415242
http://dx.doi.org/10.12669/pjms.38.8.5590
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author Moazzam, Amena
Naz, Hafeeza
Irfan, Khadija
Mahmood, Zulaikha
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description BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE: Transplant recipients are at a high risk of critical COVID-19 illness due to chronic immunosuppression and their underlying medical condition. Our objective was to study the COVID-19 related fears and adherence to infection control measures in solid organ transplant recipients during COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: A descriptive study was conducted during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic (April- August 2020) in Punjab, Pakistan, as a part of province wide COVID-19 awareness drive 754 recipients registered at Punjab Human Organ Transplantation Authority (P-HOTA) for solid organ transplant were contacted telephonically and administered a self-constructed questionnaire. The participants’ response was linked to demographic, anthropometric and disease characteristics available in organizational data base. RESULTS: Seven hundred fifty four patients who had undergone transplant or were on list during the time period 2018-2020 were identified from data base of PHOTA. 648 patients were contacted while 80 were found to have expired post- transplant and 26 recipients were still on the waiting list. The median age was 31-40 years, with male predominance (5:1). A majority of patients (93%) were found to be well informed about corona infection and its impact on their illness (89%) but (59%) of the recipients had a fear score 25-34(severe) of acquiring infection with female predominance (61%). All the recipients adhered to measures like wearing masks, frequent hand washing and maintaining safe distance .65.9% patient’s preferred online consultation while (77.9%) patients left their shoes outside their house. CONCLUSION: During the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic Solid Organ Transplant patients seemed well informed of COVID-19 infection and adhered to precautionary measures against the infections. About 78% of recipients reported that their health and quality of health care (61.1%) during this period remained the same while 3.4% reported of being infected or a contact history with COVID-19 patients
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spelling pubmed-96766232022-11-21 COVID-19 related fears and adherence to infection control protocol amongst immunocompromised transplant recipients: A case study Moazzam, Amena Naz, Hafeeza Irfan, Khadija Mahmood, Zulaikha Pak J Med Sci Original Article BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE: Transplant recipients are at a high risk of critical COVID-19 illness due to chronic immunosuppression and their underlying medical condition. Our objective was to study the COVID-19 related fears and adherence to infection control measures in solid organ transplant recipients during COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: A descriptive study was conducted during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic (April- August 2020) in Punjab, Pakistan, as a part of province wide COVID-19 awareness drive 754 recipients registered at Punjab Human Organ Transplantation Authority (P-HOTA) for solid organ transplant were contacted telephonically and administered a self-constructed questionnaire. The participants’ response was linked to demographic, anthropometric and disease characteristics available in organizational data base. RESULTS: Seven hundred fifty four patients who had undergone transplant or were on list during the time period 2018-2020 were identified from data base of PHOTA. 648 patients were contacted while 80 were found to have expired post- transplant and 26 recipients were still on the waiting list. The median age was 31-40 years, with male predominance (5:1). A majority of patients (93%) were found to be well informed about corona infection and its impact on their illness (89%) but (59%) of the recipients had a fear score 25-34(severe) of acquiring infection with female predominance (61%). All the recipients adhered to measures like wearing masks, frequent hand washing and maintaining safe distance .65.9% patient’s preferred online consultation while (77.9%) patients left their shoes outside their house. CONCLUSION: During the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic Solid Organ Transplant patients seemed well informed of COVID-19 infection and adhered to precautionary measures against the infections. About 78% of recipients reported that their health and quality of health care (61.1%) during this period remained the same while 3.4% reported of being infected or a contact history with COVID-19 patients Professional Medical Publications 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9676623/ /pubmed/36415242 http://dx.doi.org/10.12669/pjms.38.8.5590 Text en Copyright: © Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Irfan, Khadija
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COVID-19 related fears and adherence to infection control protocol amongst immunocompromised transplant recipients: A case study
title COVID-19 related fears and adherence to infection control protocol amongst immunocompromised transplant recipients: A case study
title_full COVID-19 related fears and adherence to infection control protocol amongst immunocompromised transplant recipients: A case study
title_fullStr COVID-19 related fears and adherence to infection control protocol amongst immunocompromised transplant recipients: A case study
title_full_unstemmed COVID-19 related fears and adherence to infection control protocol amongst immunocompromised transplant recipients: A case study
title_short COVID-19 related fears and adherence to infection control protocol amongst immunocompromised transplant recipients: A case study
title_sort covid-19 related fears and adherence to infection control protocol amongst immunocompromised transplant recipients: a case study
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9676623/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36415242
http://dx.doi.org/10.12669/pjms.38.8.5590
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