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COVID-19 Vaccination Did Not Change the Personal Protective Behaviors of Healthcare Workers in China
| العنوان: | COVID-19 Vaccination Did Not Change the Personal Protective Behaviors of Healthcare Workers in China |
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| المؤلفون: | Zhang, Nan, Lei, Hao, Li, Li, Jin, Tianyi, Liu, Xiyue, Miao, Doudou, Su, Boni, Bu, Zhongming, Fan, Lin, Xue, Peng, Xie, Jingchao, Li, Yuguo |
| المصدر: | Frontiers in Public Health ; volume 9 ; ISSN 2296-2565 |
| بيانات النشر: | Frontiers Media SA |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| المجموعة: | Frontiers (Publisher - via CrossRef) |
| الوصف: | Personal protective behaviors of healthcare workers (HCWs) and dynamic changes in them are known to play a major role in the hospital transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). In this study, 1,499 HCWs in Chinese hospitals completed an online survey about their knowledge on SARS-CoV-2 transmission and their personal protective behaviors before and after coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination. Of all the respondents, 89% were vaccinated at the time of the survey and 96% believed that the vaccine was effective or highly effective. Further, 88% of the vaccinated HCWs expressed that they would get revaccinated if the vaccination failed. Compared with HCWs with a lower education level, those with a higher education level had less fear of being infected with SARS-CoV-2 and reported a lower negative impact of the pandemic on how they treated patients. Physicians and nurses were willing to believe that short-range airborne and long-range fomite are possible transmission routes. HCWs with a higher education level had a better knowledge of COVID-19 but worse personal protective behaviors. The fact that HCWs with a longer work experience had worse personal protective behaviors showed that HCWs gradually relax their personal protective behaviors over time. Moreover, vaccination reduced the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on how the HCWs treated patients. Importantly, the survey revealed that after vaccination, HCWs in China did not relax their personal protective behaviors, and it may bring a low potential risk for following waves of variant virus (e.g., delta). |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | unknown |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fpubh.2021.777426 |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fpubh.2021.777426/full |
| الاتاحة: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.777426 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.777426/full |
| Rights: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.E1616F03 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fpubh.2021.777426 |
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