Skin problems among nurses due to personal protective equipment: A cross-sectional study from COVID-19 hospital

Vikas Gupta, S. Chawla, S. Goel, Ashutosh Kumar Singh
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BACKGROUND: Nursing staff are at much greater risk of infection due to the exposure to the highly infectious bodily fluids and droplet nuclei and needed the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) to reduce the transmission risk. AIM: The present study was conducted to estimate the prevalence of skin injury and its type due to PPE usage nursing staff. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted after obtaining the institutional ethical approval in dedicated COVID-19 hospital for a period of 4 months among 144 nursing staff wearing Grade 2 and 3 PPE kit. Study subjects were approached through social networking websites and survey questionnaire (Google Forms) according to relevant guides; research literature was used for collecting the details regarding baseline, duty, and skin injury characterization. Chi-square analysis was used to find the association between dependent and independent variables and an association was significant for P < 0.05. RESULTS: It was observed that 54.7% of nursing staff were working for 6 or more hours and 16.5% of subjects were wearing the PPE kit for 5 or more hours per day. 86.3% of subjects have suffered from skin injury after PPE usage. The most common symptoms/signs for the skin injury occurred were indentation and pain on back of ears (61.9%). CONCLUSION: The skin injuries of PPE among the nursing staff may result in reduced morale for overloaded work and made them anxious, so an effective preventive measure should be adopted.
个人防护装备导致的护士皮肤问题:来自COVID-19医院的横断面研究
背景:由于暴露于高传染性体液和飞沫核,护理人员感染的风险要大得多,需要使用个人防护装备(PPE)来降低传播风险。目的:本研究旨在了解护理人员使用个人防护用品造成的皮肤损伤及其类型的发生率。材料与方法:本描述性横断面研究是在COVID-19专科医院获得机构伦理批准后,对144名佩戴2级和3级防护用品的护理人员进行为期4个月的研究。根据相关指南,通过社交网站和调查问卷(Google Forms)接近研究对象;研究文献用于收集有关基线、职责和皮肤损伤特征的详细信息。因变量与自变量之间的相关性采用卡方分析,P < 0.05为显著相关。结果:54.7%的护理人员每天工作6小时及以上,16.5%的受试者每天佩戴防护用品5小时及以上。86.3%的受试者在使用PPE后出现皮肤损伤。最常见的皮肤损伤症状/体征为耳后凹陷和疼痛(61.9%)。结论:护理人员PPE皮肤损伤可能导致超负荷工作的士气下降和焦虑,应采取有效的预防措施。
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