التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Initial risk perception and feeling of preparedness of primary care physicians regarding the COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium, France and Spain in February 2020. |
| المؤلفون: |
Guerrisi, C, Thomas, B, Ordax Diez, A, Van Cauteren, D, Lozano Alonso, J E, Moreels, S, Falchi, A, Vega Alonso, T, Bonmarin, I, Raude, J, Vilcu, A M, Hanslik, T, Debin, M, Rossignol, L, Colizza, V, Souty, C, Blanchon, T |
| المصدر: |
BMC Primary Care; 01/23/2022, Vol. 23 Issue 1, p1-8, 8p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
RESEARCH, CONFIDENCE intervals, ATTITUDE (Psychology), CROSS-sectional method, MULTIVARIATE analysis, MEDICAL cooperation, PRIMARY health care, RISK perception, EMERGENCY management, SEVERITY of illness index, ANXIETY, LOGISTIC regression analysis, ODDS ratio, COVID-19 pandemic |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
SPAIN, BELGIUM, FRANCE |
| مستخلص: |
Background: The knowledge of risk perceptions in primary care could help health authorities to manage epidemics. Methods: A European multi-center cross-sectional study was conducted in France, Belgium and Spain to describe the perceptions, the level of anxiety and the feeling of preparedness of primary healthcare physicians towards the COVID-19 infection at the beginning of the pandemic. The factors associated with the feeling of preparedness were studied using multivariate logistic regressions. Results: A total of 511 physicians participated to the study (response rate: 35.2%). Among them, only 16.3% (n=82) were highly anxious about the pandemic, 50.6% (n=254) had the feeling to have a high level of information, 80.5% (n=409) found the measures taken by the health authorities suitable to limit the spread of COVID-19, and 45.2% (n=229) felt prepared to face the epidemic. Factors associated with feeling prepared were: being a Spanish practitioner (adjusted OR=4.34; 95%CI [2.47; 7.80]), being a man (aOR=2.57, 95%CI [1.69; 3.96]), finding the measures taken by authorities appropriate (aOR=1.72, 95%CI [1.01; 3.00]) and being highly informed (aOR=4.82, 95%CI [2.62; 9.19]). Conclusions: Regarding the dramatic evolution of the pandemic in Europe in the weeks following the study, it appears that information available at this time and transmitted to the physicians could have given a wrong assessment of the spread and the severity of the disease. It seems essential to better integrate the primary care physicians into the information, training and protection channels. A comparison between countries could help to select the most effective measures in terms of information and communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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