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Ahmad J, Anwar S, Latif A, et al. Association of PPE Availability, Training, and Practices with COVID-19 Sero-Prevalence in Nurses and Paramedics in Tertiary Care Hospitals of Peshawar, Pakistan. Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2020;1-5doi: 10.1017/dmp.2020.438.
Ahmad, J., Anwar, S., Latif, A., Haq, N. U., Sharif, M., & Nauman, A. A. (2020). Association of PPE Availability, Training, and Practices with COVID-19 Sero-Prevalence in Nurses and Paramedics in Tertiary Care Hospitals of Peshawar, Pakistan. Disaster medicine and public health preparedness, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2020.438
Ahmad, Junaid, et al. "Association of PPE Availability, Training, and Practices with COVID-19 Sero-Prevalence in Nurses and Paramedics in Tertiary Care Hospitals of Peshawar, Pakistan." Disaster medicine and public health preparedness vol. (2020): 1-5. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2020.438
Ahmad J, Anwar S, Latif A, Haq NU, Sharif M, Nauman AA. Association of PPE Availability, Training, and Practices with COVID-19 Sero-Prevalence in Nurses and Paramedics in Tertiary Care Hospitals of Peshawar, Pakistan. Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2020 Nov 05;1-5. doi: 10.1017/dmp.2020.438. Epub 2020 Nov 05. PMID: 33148365; PMCID: PMC7943947.
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Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2020 Nov 05;1-5. doi: 10.1017/dmp.2020.438. Epub 2020 Nov 05.

Association of PPE Availability, Training, and Practices with COVID-19 Sero-Prevalence in Nurses and Paramedics in Tertiary Care Hospitals of Peshawar, Pakistan.

Disaster medicine and public health preparedness

Junaid Ahmad, Saeed Anwar, Abdul Latif, Najib U Haq, Muhammad Sharif, Ahmed A Nauman

Affiliations

  1. Prime Institute of Public Health, Peshawar Medical College, Peshawar, K.P.K., Pakistan.
  2. Peshawar Medical College, Peshawar, K.P.K., Pakistan.

PMID: 33148365 PMCID: PMC7943947 DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2020.438

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Nurses and paramedics by being the frontline workers of the health-care profession need to be equipped with the relevant knowledge, skills, and protective gears against different forms of infection, including coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Although the governments and concerned stakeholders have provided personal protective equipment (PPE), training and information to protect the health-care professionals; however, until now the scientific literature has virtually not reported the impact of PPE availability, training, and practices on the COVID-19 sero-prevalence among the nurses and paramedics. This study aimed to assess the impact of PPE availability, training, and practices on COVID-19 sero-prevalence among nurses and paramedics in teaching hospitals of Peshawar, Pakistan.

METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was conducted with a total of 133 nurses and paramedics as subjects of the study.

RESULTS: A univariate analysis was done for 4 variables. The findings indicate that the health-care professionals (nurses and paramedics) who have received PPE on time at the start of COVID-19 emergence have fewer chances of contracting the COVID-19 infection (odds ratio = 0.96); while the odds for PPE supplies was 0.73, and the odds of hand hygiene training was 0.95.

CONCLUSIONS: The study concluded that the availability of the PPE, COVID-19-related training, and compliance with World Health Organization recommended practices against COVID-19 were instrumental in protection against the infection and its spread.

Keywords: COVID-19; PPE; Pakistan; practices; sero-prevalence; training

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