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Differential perceptions regarding personal protective equipment use during the COVID-19 pandemic by NHS healthcare professionals based on ethnicity, sex and professional experience
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Robbins, Tim, Kyrou, Ioannis, Vankad, Maariyah, Suthantirakumar, Risheka, Igharo, Natalie, Patel, Kiran, Randeva, Harpal S. and Sankar, Sailesh (2021) Differential perceptions regarding personal protective equipment use during the COVID-19 pandemic by NHS healthcare professionals based on ethnicity, sex and professional experience. Infection Prevention in Practice, 3 (3). 100141. doi:10.1016/j.infpip.2021.100141
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infpip.2021.100141
Abstract
Objectives
To capture perceptions regarding personal protective equipment (PPE) among healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic, including staff subgroups at high risk for severe COVID-19, such as black and minority ethnic (BAME) groups.
Design
Electronically distributed survey with semi-quantitative analysis. Survey distributed at a major academic NHS tertiary referral centre in the West Midlands with a diverse medical workforce to medically qualified staff who completed COVID-19 redeployment training. (N=121; 47% female; 49% of BAME background; 26% international medical graduates).
Results
All demographic groups reported overall good awareness of when and how to use PPE during COVID-19 pandemic. Statistically significant differences in the perceptions regarding PPE use during COVID-19 were noted between BAME vs non-BAME staff, international vs UK medical graduates, and male vs female participants, as well as between professionals at different stages of their career. The differences related to perceptions around availability, degree of protection provided, perceived inconvenience, ability to raise concerns about availability, confidence in sharing underlying health conditions with managers and the impact of full PPE in emergency situations causing delay patient care.
Conclusions
Amongst medically qualified staff, significant differences exist in the perceptions relating to the, availability and effectiveness of PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic depending on country of training, ethnic background and sex.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School Faculty of Science > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group) |
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| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | COVID-19 (Disease), Protective clothing , National health services -- Great Britain | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Infection Prevention in Practice | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 2590-0889 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | September 2021 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 3 | ||||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||||
| Article Number: | 100141 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.infpip.2021.100141 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||||
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