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COVID-19 knowledge, attitude, and practice of United Arab Emirates heath providers at the start of the pandemic 2020

BACKGROUND: Early in 2020, healthcare providers faced the novel virus COVID-19 that had unprecedented risk to them and the community they serve. With COVID-19 high infectivity rate and considerable morbidity and mortality, healthcare providers ' precautionary practices to protect themselves, co...

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Autores principales: Alghfeli, Aljazia Khalfan, Al Zarooni, Amal Abdul Rahim, Alremeithi, Hamda Musabbah, Almadhaani, Roqayah Abdulla, Alketbi, Latifa Baynouna
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9924855/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36782281
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-022-01015-w
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author Alghfeli, Aljazia Khalfan
Al Zarooni, Amal Abdul Rahim
Alremeithi, Hamda Musabbah
Almadhaani, Roqayah Abdulla
Alketbi, Latifa Baynouna
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Al Zarooni, Amal Abdul Rahim
Alremeithi, Hamda Musabbah
Almadhaani, Roqayah Abdulla
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description BACKGROUND: Early in 2020, healthcare providers faced the novel virus COVID-19 that had unprecedented risk to them and the community they serve. With COVID-19 high infectivity rate and considerable morbidity and mortality, healthcare providers ' precautionary practices to protect themselves, colleagues, and patients were determinantal to provide safe health services. This study aims to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice of healthcare providers in the United Arab Emirates toward COVID-19 and to examine its determinants. METHOD: This cross-sectional study was conducted to assess COVID-19 knowledge, attitudes, and practice (KAP) of healthcare providers in the Emirates of Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, from April to July 2020, using an online anonymous self-administered questionnaire. A convenient sampling method was used to distribute the online survey link through the organization's email network admin list and smartphone messaging. Descriptive statistics, t-tests, and multivariant linear regression were used. RESULTS: A total of 2371 healthcare providers responded to the survey. A total of 1091 worked in inpatient hospitals, 494 in primary health care, and 388 in emergency and ICU care. The overall performance score for all healthcare providers was as follows: 49.1%, poor score; 41.8%, intermediate score; and 9.2%, good score with a mean result of 17.14. Factors leading to better overall performance scores were years of experience, pediatricians’ specialty, and specialist occupation. A total of 55.7% received good direct knowledge from all healthcare providers. In practice, 48% had good practices toward COVID-19. The overall attitude mean was 2.8, with a maximum score of 7, indicating a positive attitude toward COVID-19. CONCLUSIONS: Although this study describes a dynamic learning status and could reflect the early pandemic situation in Abu Dhabi health care, it does provide a method to assess the precursor of the critical outcome. It is recommended to follow this study with an assessment of the training program targeting all healthcare providers to ensure a better response to emerging infections. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13690-022-01015-w.
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spelling pubmed-99248552023-02-14 COVID-19 knowledge, attitude, and practice of United Arab Emirates heath providers at the start of the pandemic 2020 Alghfeli, Aljazia Khalfan Al Zarooni, Amal Abdul Rahim Alremeithi, Hamda Musabbah Almadhaani, Roqayah Abdulla Alketbi, Latifa Baynouna Arch Public Health Research BACKGROUND: Early in 2020, healthcare providers faced the novel virus COVID-19 that had unprecedented risk to them and the community they serve. With COVID-19 high infectivity rate and considerable morbidity and mortality, healthcare providers ' precautionary practices to protect themselves, colleagues, and patients were determinantal to provide safe health services. This study aims to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice of healthcare providers in the United Arab Emirates toward COVID-19 and to examine its determinants. METHOD: This cross-sectional study was conducted to assess COVID-19 knowledge, attitudes, and practice (KAP) of healthcare providers in the Emirates of Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, from April to July 2020, using an online anonymous self-administered questionnaire. A convenient sampling method was used to distribute the online survey link through the organization's email network admin list and smartphone messaging. Descriptive statistics, t-tests, and multivariant linear regression were used. RESULTS: A total of 2371 healthcare providers responded to the survey. A total of 1091 worked in inpatient hospitals, 494 in primary health care, and 388 in emergency and ICU care. The overall performance score for all healthcare providers was as follows: 49.1%, poor score; 41.8%, intermediate score; and 9.2%, good score with a mean result of 17.14. Factors leading to better overall performance scores were years of experience, pediatricians’ specialty, and specialist occupation. A total of 55.7% received good direct knowledge from all healthcare providers. In practice, 48% had good practices toward COVID-19. The overall attitude mean was 2.8, with a maximum score of 7, indicating a positive attitude toward COVID-19. CONCLUSIONS: Although this study describes a dynamic learning status and could reflect the early pandemic situation in Abu Dhabi health care, it does provide a method to assess the precursor of the critical outcome. It is recommended to follow this study with an assessment of the training program targeting all healthcare providers to ensure a better response to emerging infections. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13690-022-01015-w. BioMed Central 2023-02-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9924855/ /pubmed/36782281 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-022-01015-w Text en © The Author(s) 2023 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/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Al Zarooni, Amal Abdul Rahim
Alremeithi, Hamda Musabbah
Almadhaani, Roqayah Abdulla
Alketbi, Latifa Baynouna
COVID-19 knowledge, attitude, and practice of United Arab Emirates heath providers at the start of the pandemic 2020
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title_short COVID-19 knowledge, attitude, and practice of United Arab Emirates heath providers at the start of the pandemic 2020
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9924855/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36782281
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-022-01015-w
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