Jamil Md, Bhattacharya Prasanta K, Barman Bhupen, Topno Noor, Narang Naku, Phukan Pranjal, Dey Biswajit, Saikia Bishwajeet, War Gwenette Andrea, Hynniewta Yasmeen
Department of General Medicine, North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS), Shillong, Meghalaya, India.
Department of General Surgery, North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS), Shillong, Meghalaya, India.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2022 May;11(5):1898-1901. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1733_21. Epub 2022 May 14.
COVID-19 can infect any individual, but the group most susceptible is the Health Care Workers (HCWs) who are directly involved in COVID-19 patient care. Despite adhering to the recommended personal prospective equipment, a disproportionately large number of cases of COVID-19 were reported among the HCWs.
To study the burden of COVID-19 infection among the HCWs and to study the probable factors associated with increased risk of COVID-19 infection among HCWs.
A hospital-based prospective cross-sectional study was conducted at a tertiary care teaching institute in the state of Meghalaya, India for the period between 1 May 2020 and 30 June 2021 and included only laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases. Data collected included: A) Demographic data - age, gender, category of HCW, B) History of exposure, place of posting, C) Clinical presentation and disease category.
A total of 144 cases were included in the study. The mean age of affected HCWs was 33.83 ± 1.408 years and male to female ratio was 0.47:1. The commonest age group affected was 18 to 30 years of age (45.14%). The majority of the HCWs were Nursing Officers (staff) (52.78%) followed by Resident Doctors (18.06%). Out of all cases, 135 (93.75%) were either asymptomatic or had mildly symptoms. In 96 (66.67%) HCWs, there was high-risk contact with a known case of COVID-19. High-risk contact outside the COVID-19 designated area of the hospital was noted in 53 (36.81%) cases; however, only 22 (15.27%) patients had a history of working in the COVID-19 designated area at the workplace.
The most common group that got infected was the nursing staff followed by the resident doctors, with more than ninety percent of the cases having either mild symptoms or were asymptomatic. The risk of contracting COVID-19 infection was higher in non-COVID-19 as compared to COVID-19 designated areas of the hospital.
新冠病毒可感染任何人，但最易感染的群体是直接参与新冠患者护理工作的医护人员。尽管医护人员遵循了推荐的个人防护设备使用建议，但报告显示，医护人员感染新冠病毒的病例数量仍不成比例地偏高。
研究医护人员中新冠病毒感染的负担，并研究与医护人员感染新冠病毒风险增加相关的可能因素。
在印度梅加拉亚邦的一家三级护理教学机构进行了一项基于医院的前瞻性横断面研究，研究时间为2020年5月1日至2021年6月30日，仅纳入实验室确诊的新冠病例。收集的数据包括：A）人口统计学数据——年龄、性别、医护人员类别；B）接触史、工作地点；C）临床表现和疾病类别。
本研究共纳入144例病例。受感染医护人员的平均年龄为33.83±1.408岁，男女比例为0.47:1。受影响最常见的年龄组为18至30岁（45.14%）。大多数医护人员是护士（52.78%），其次是住院医生（18.06%）。在所有病例中，135例（93.75%）无症状或症状轻微。96例（66.67%）医护人员与已知新冠病例有高风险接触。53例（36.81%）病例在医院新冠指定区域外有高风险接触；然而，只有22例（15.27%）患者有在工作场所新冠指定区域工作的历史。
感染最常见的群体是护理人员，其次是住院医生，超过90%的病例症状轻微或无症状。与医院的新冠指定区域相比，在非新冠指定区域感染新冠病毒的风险更高。
