Prevalence of COVID-19 in oral health professionals of the Balearic Islands in the period of confinement and start of the deescalated
[eng] The aim of the present study is to perform an anonymous, quantitative and descriptive analysis about the prevalence of COVID- 19 infections in oral care professionals in the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands, during the confinement of the popula- tion and the begin...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de las Islas Baleares |
| Repositorio: | Biblioteca Digital de les Illes Balears |
| OAI Identifier: | medicinaBalear:AJHS_Medicina_Balear_2021v36n1p031 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://ibdigital.uib.es/greenstone/sites/oai-site/collect/medicinaBalear/index/assoc/AJHS_Med/icina_Ba/lear_202/1v36n1p0/31.dir/AJHS_Medicina_Balear_2021v36n1p031.pdf http://ibdigital.uib.es/greenstone/library/collection/medicinaBalear/document/AJHS_Medicina_Balear_2021v36n1p031 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Public health personnel COVID-19 (Disease) -- Spain -- Balearic Islands Health Sciences |
| Sumario: | [eng] The aim of the present study is to perform an anonymous, quantitative and descriptive analysis about the prevalence of COVID- 19 infections in oral care professionals in the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands, during the confinement of the popula- tion and the beginning of the deescalated. For this, an online self-filling survey was used. It was sento to the oral care professionals working in the Balearic Islands. Dentists and stomatologists (DS), superior technicians in oral hygiene (OH) and superior techni- cians in dental prosthesis (DP). The oral care professionals received and answered the survey in the period between June 1st and 30th 2020, using a form served through the Google Forms Gsuit application. 148 professionals responded to the survey, of which 4% reported a positive serology to COVID-19. All positive professionals were from Mallorca and from urban (83,3%) and semi-urban areas (16,6%). Significantly more OH (76%) and DP (88%) did not undergone the COVID test in comparison with DS (49%, p = 0.0008). There was no statistically significant difference between the different professionals regarding the fear of contracting the virus. There was also no statistically significant diference between the type of mask (p=0.6166) used by the professionals. With the results of the present study was possible to find a prevalence of 4% of COVID-19 infection among the oral care professionals of the Balearic Islands who answered the survey. |
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