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Knowledge, attitudes and practices of healthcare workers during the early COVID-19 pandemic in a main, academic tertiary care centre in Saudi Arabia.
Epidemiol Infect. 2020 08 28; 148:e203.EI

Abstract

As the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) continues to occur in small outbreaks in Saudi Arabia, we aimed to assess the knowledge, attitudes and intended practices of healthcare workers (HCWs) during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic and compare worry levels with previous findings during the MERS-CoV outbreak in 2015. We sent an adapted version of our previously published MERS-CoV questionnaire to the same cohort of HCWs at a tertiary hospital in Saudi Arabia. About 40% of our sample had previous experience with confirmed or suspected MERS-CoV patients, and those had a significantly higher knowledge score (13.16 ± 2.02 vs. 12.58 ± 2.27, P = 0.002) and higher adherence to protective hygienic practices (2.95 ± 0.80 vs. 2.74 ± 0.92, P = 0.003). The knowledge scores on COVID-19 were higher in the current cohort than the previous MERS-CoV outbreak cohort (68% vs. 79.7%, P < 0.001). HCWs from the current cohort who felt greater anxiety from COVID-19 compared to MERS-CoV were less likely to have been exposed to MERS-CoV infected/suspected cases (odds ratio (OR) = 0.646, P = 0.042) and were less likely to have attended the hospital awareness campaign on COVID-19 (OR = 0.654, P = 0.035). We concluded that previous experience with MERS-CoV was associated with increased knowledge and adherence to protective hygienic practices, and reduction of anxiety towards COVID-19.

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Temsah MH
College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Department of Pediatrics, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Prince Abdullah Bin Khaled Coeliac Disease Chair, Faculty of Medicine, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.
Alhuzaimi AN
College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Cardiac Science Department, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Alamro N
College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Department of Family and Community Medicine, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz Research Chair for Epidemiology and Public Health, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Alrabiaah A
College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Department of Pediatrics, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Al-Sohime F
College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Department of Pediatrics, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Alhasan K
College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Department of Pediatrics, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Kari JA
Department of Pediatrics, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Almaghlouth I
College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. College of Medicine Research Center, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Aljamaan F
College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Adult Critical Care Department, King Saud University, King Saud University Medical City/King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Al-Eyadhy A
College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Department of Pediatrics, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Jamal A
College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Department of Family and Community Medicine, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Al Amri M
Department of Infectious Disease, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Barry M
College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Infectious Disease Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Al-Subaie S
College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Department of Pediatrics, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Somily AM
College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University and King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Al-Zamil F
College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Department of Pediatrics, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

MeSH

AdultBetacoronavirusCOVID-19Coronavirus InfectionsFemaleHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeHealth PersonnelHumansInfection ControlMaleMiddle AgedMiddle East Respiratory Syndrome CoronavirusPandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2Saudi ArabiaTertiary Care Centers

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Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Language

eng

PubMed ID

32854806

Citation

Temsah, M H., et al. "Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Healthcare Workers During the Early COVID-19 Pandemic in a Main, Academic Tertiary Care Centre in Saudi Arabia." Epidemiology and Infection, vol. 148, 2020, pp. e203.
Temsah MH, Alhuzaimi AN, Alamro N, et al. Knowledge, attitudes and practices of healthcare workers during the early COVID-19 pandemic in a main, academic tertiary care centre in Saudi Arabia. Epidemiol Infect. 2020;148:e203.
Temsah, M. H., Alhuzaimi, A. N., Alamro, N., Alrabiaah, A., Al-Sohime, F., Alhasan, K., Kari, J. A., Almaghlouth, I., Aljamaan, F., Al-Eyadhy, A., Jamal, A., Al Amri, M., Barry, M., Al-Subaie, S., Somily, A. M., & Al-Zamil, F. (2020). Knowledge, attitudes and practices of healthcare workers during the early COVID-19 pandemic in a main, academic tertiary care centre in Saudi Arabia. Epidemiology and Infection, 148, e203. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268820001958
Temsah MH, et al. Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Healthcare Workers During the Early COVID-19 Pandemic in a Main, Academic Tertiary Care Centre in Saudi Arabia. Epidemiol Infect. 2020 08 28;148:e203. PubMed PMID: 32854806.
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