Cortés Jorge Alberto, Espitia Pilar, Rosero-Lasso Yuliet Liliana
Departamento de Medicina Interna, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia; Hospital Universitario Nacional de Colombia, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia.
División de Salud Pública, Secretaría Distrital de Salud, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia.
Biomedica. 2020 Oct 30;40(Supl. 2):159-165. doi: 10.7705/biomedica.5526.
Healthcare personnel plays an important role in the prevention of acute respiratory infections in hospital settings.
Our aim was to establish the level of knowledge about respiratory virus infections and the attitudes and practices among healthcare workers, leaders of infection control committees in hospitals of Bogotá, Colombia.
We used a self-administered questionnaire of 28 items during the monthly meeting sponsored by the local health authority. "Yes or no" and "true or false" questions were applied to measure knowledge. Attitudes and practices were measured with a Likert-type scale according to the agreement degree.
We surveyed 70 healthcare workers. Respondents demonstrated a good level of knowledge as 80% of them answered correctly more than five questions. A total of 54.4% showed a low degree of agreement when asked if their institutions have the policy to stay home when they are sick with respiratory symptoms and 67.1% never or rarely remain at home under such conditions.
Healthcare worker leaders of infection control committees in Bogotá's ospitals have adequate knowledge about the prevention of seasonal respiratory viruses. There is a need for implementing urgent sick leave policies as a measure to prevent the spread of potential coronavirus infections in hospitals.
医护人员在医院环境中预防急性呼吸道感染方面发挥着重要作用。
我们的目的是确定哥伦比亚波哥大医院的医护人员、感染控制委员会负责人对呼吸道病毒感染的了解程度以及他们的态度和做法。
在当地卫生当局主办的月度会议期间，我们使用了一份包含28个项目的自填式问卷。采用“是或否”以及“对或错”问题来衡量知识水平。态度和做法根据同意程度用李克特量表进行衡量。
我们对70名医护人员进行了调查。受访者表现出良好的知识水平，因为其中80%的人正确回答了超过五个问题。当被问及他们所在机构是否有政策要求出现呼吸道症状时居家休息时，共有54.4%的人表示同意程度较低，67.1%的人在这种情况下从未或很少居家休息。
波哥大医院感染控制委员会的医护人员负责人对预防季节性呼吸道病毒有足够的了解。有必要实施紧急病假政策，作为预防医院潜在冠状病毒感染传播的一项措施。
