A web survey to assess the use efficacy of personnel protective materials among allied health care workers during COVID-19 pandemic at North-East India
Kotian, D. R. P.; Debnath, M.; Zosangliani, ; D'souza, B.; Faujdar, D.
Show abstract
The rising pandemic is resulting in increased usage of personnel protective equipment in the hospital and community. The efficient and effective use of appropriate personal protective equipment will help assure its availability and healthcare provider safety. The purpose of this study was to assess the use efficacy of PPE among health care workers through a web based survey during the pandemic. the response rate of the survey was 66.75%. 35.2% gave a full rating on a point of 5 regarding the control measures taken by the hospital, 39% of respondents did not use the PPE, 90.6% used a surgical mask while 65.9% wore the disposable gloves and only 47.6% wore the goggles/face shield More than half the respondents did not wear the shoe-cover. 97.4% used the hand sanitizer and around 97% maintained hand hygiene practice.
Matching journals
The top 2 journals account for 50% of the predicted probability mass.
Similar papers in this journal
- Risk perceptions and preventive practices of COVID-19 among healthcare professionals in public hospitals in Ethiopia 96%
- Risk perceptions and preventive practices of COVID-19 among healthcare professionals in public hospitals in Ethiopia 96%
- Strengthening government’s response to COVID-19 in Indonesia: a modified Delphi study of medical and health academics 96%
Similar papers in this journal
- Factors influencing the motivation of maternal health workers in conflict setting of Mogadishu, Somalia 94%
- Corona virus fear among health workers during the early phase of pandemic response in Nepal: a web-based cross-sectional study 94%
- Implementation and Evaluation of Obstetric Early Warning Systems in tertiary care hospitals in Nigeria 94%
Similar papers in this journal
- Caregivers’ Perspective: Satisfaction With Healthcare Services At The Paediatric Specialist Clinic Of The National Referral Centre In Malaysia 94%
- Learning from the resilience of hospitals and their staff to the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review 93%
- Patterns of physical activity among the students of an Indian university and their perceptions about the curricular content concerned with health 93%
Similar papers in this journal
- Adverse events following COVID-19 virus vaccination in Japanese young population: The first cross-sectional study conducted by a questionnaire survey after the first-time-injection 92%
- Acceptability, willingness to use and preferred distribution models of oral-based HIV self-testing kits among key and priority populations enrolled in HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis clinics in central Uganda. A mixed-methods cross-sectional study 90%
- Adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination in young Japanese people: A case-control study of the risk of systemic adverse events by a questionnaire surveyShort title: COVID-19 vaccine adverse events in young Japanese 90%
Similar papers in this journal
- Relationship Between Adverse Events Prevalence, Patient Safety Culture And Patient Safety Perception In A Single Sample Of Patients: A Cross-Sectional And Correlational Study 94%
- The Use of Machine Learning in Occupational Risk Communication for Healthcare Workers – Protocol for scoping review 94%
- A cross-sectional study of COVID-19 knowledge, beliefs and prevention behaviors among adults in Senegal 93%
"Similar papers" are the closest papers from that journal in the model's embedding space. They show what the match is built on, but the ranking comes mostly from a classifier over the whole training set, not from these examples alone.