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Medisur 2022; 20 (5)

Epidemiological characterization of health workers sick with COVID-19. Cienfuegos Province, March 2020-September 2021

Crespo GA, Montenegro CT, Tamayo MS, García VM, Duany BLE, Águila RN

Language: Spanish
References: 19
Page: 844-853
PDF size: 549.60 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Background: health workers are the ones who remained on the front line of the response to COVID-19, so they were in greater danger in situations of potential exposure.
Objective: to characterize health workers sick with COVID-19, from March 2020 to September the 30th, 2021, according to sociodemographic and epidemiological variables. to characterize sociodemographically and epidemiologically health workers sick with COVID-19, from March 2020 to September the 30th, 2021.
Methods: Observational, descriptive cross-sectional study carried out in Cienfuegos. The universe was made up of all health workers diagnosed with COVID-19, during the study period. The variables were: age, sex, municipality of origin, occupational profile, clinical status at diagnosis, source of infection. The primary source for obtaining information was the database of the Health Surveillance Department of the Provincial Health Directorate. The processing was done using SPSS version 21.0.
Results: the months with the highest diagnosis were July and August. The female sex was the most represented and the age groups of 25-34 and 45-54 years old. The Cienfuegos municipality was the one with the highest number of cases. Doctors and nurses were the most represented. The possible source of infection was extrainstitutional. 83.7% of the total cases showed some symptom.
Conclusions: the largest number of health workers were infected in the peak months of the pandemic, but in most of them the infection occurred extra-institutionally.


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