Personal protective equipment: Analysis of supply among midwives during the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru

OBJECTIVE: To report the details of provision of personal protective equipment to midwives during the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru METHODS: This is a non-experimental, descriptive, cross-sectional study. An online survey of 679 midwives working at public healthcare centres was conducted via questionnai...

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Autores principales: Valverde-Espinoza, Natalia, Barja-Ore, John, Rojas, Mirian Solis, Pérez-Silva, Margarita, Herrera-Málaga, Rocío, Angulo, Lizardo Huamán, López, Brenda Rodríguez
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Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9792185/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36608487
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2022.103583
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author Valverde-Espinoza, Natalia
Barja-Ore, John
Rojas, Mirian Solis
Pérez-Silva, Margarita
Herrera-Málaga, Rocío
Angulo, Lizardo Huamán
López, Brenda Rodríguez
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Barja-Ore, John
Rojas, Mirian Solis
Pérez-Silva, Margarita
Herrera-Málaga, Rocío
Angulo, Lizardo Huamán
López, Brenda Rodríguez
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description OBJECTIVE: To report the details of provision of personal protective equipment to midwives during the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru METHODS: This is a non-experimental, descriptive, cross-sectional study. An online survey of 679 midwives working at public healthcare centres was conducted via questionnaires. The following aspects were outlined: method of supply and frequency of delivery of personal protective equipment, type of personal protective equipment provided by the institution, and self-purchase. Furthermore, features of the midwives’ workplace were described. For statistical analysis, absolute frequencies and relative proportions were used for categorical variables, and mean and standard deviation were used for numerical variables. MEASUREMENTS AND FINDINGS: The most important finding of this study is that a large proportion of midwives (66.6%) did not receive new personal protective equipment for each shift; 41.9% of midwives who received personal protective equipment during each shift exclusively provided services in the COVID-19 ward, whereas 27.6% did not. The least received supplies were of N95 respirator masks (41.7%) and disposable isolation suit gown (50.5%). Only a certain proportion of midwives (38.6%) were trained by their own institutions on the use of personal protective equipment. KEY CONCLUSIONS: The provision of personal protective equipment to midwives and training on personal protective equipment were insufficient at all workplaces. Therefore, measures must be taken to increase the supply of this material to midwives who are essential workers in reproductive health.
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spelling pubmed-97921852022-12-27 Personal protective equipment: Analysis of supply among midwives during the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru Valverde-Espinoza, Natalia Barja-Ore, John Rojas, Mirian Solis Pérez-Silva, Margarita Herrera-Málaga, Rocío Angulo, Lizardo Huamán López, Brenda Rodríguez Midwifery Article OBJECTIVE: To report the details of provision of personal protective equipment to midwives during the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru METHODS: This is a non-experimental, descriptive, cross-sectional study. An online survey of 679 midwives working at public healthcare centres was conducted via questionnaires. The following aspects were outlined: method of supply and frequency of delivery of personal protective equipment, type of personal protective equipment provided by the institution, and self-purchase. Furthermore, features of the midwives’ workplace were described. For statistical analysis, absolute frequencies and relative proportions were used for categorical variables, and mean and standard deviation were used for numerical variables. MEASUREMENTS AND FINDINGS: The most important finding of this study is that a large proportion of midwives (66.6%) did not receive new personal protective equipment for each shift; 41.9% of midwives who received personal protective equipment during each shift exclusively provided services in the COVID-19 ward, whereas 27.6% did not. The least received supplies were of N95 respirator masks (41.7%) and disposable isolation suit gown (50.5%). Only a certain proportion of midwives (38.6%) were trained by their own institutions on the use of personal protective equipment. KEY CONCLUSIONS: The provision of personal protective equipment to midwives and training on personal protective equipment were insufficient at all workplaces. Therefore, measures must be taken to increase the supply of this material to midwives who are essential workers in reproductive health. Elsevier Ltd. 2023-03 2022-12-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9792185/ /pubmed/36608487 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2022.103583 Text en © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. 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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Angulo, Lizardo Huamán
López, Brenda Rodríguez
Personal protective equipment: Analysis of supply among midwives during the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2022.103583
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