Knowledge and use of personal protective equipment by nursing professionals during the Covid-19 pandemic

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OBJECTIVE: To explore the knowledge and use of personal protective equipment by nursing professionals of Primary Health Care during the Covid-19 pandemic. METHOD: This is an exploratory study of a non-probabilistic sample developed in Basic Health Units in the city of Picos, Piauí, Brazil. Data were collected between June and August 2020, by phone call, following a semi-structured script, with responses recording and transcription. For material analysis, the software IRaMuTeQ was used for statistical textual analyses: Descending Hierarchical Classification, similarity analysis, and word cloud. RESULTS: From the corpus of 6,873 words and 832 lexical units, three categories were created: (1) motivations and barriers for use (20.9%); (2) handling of personal protective equipment (classes 5 and 4) with 25% and 21.6%, respectively, and (3) measures to protect users and health professionals (classes 3 and 5) with 17.6% and 14.9%. CONCLUSION: The nursing professionals interviewed demonstrated that they did not have sufficient knowledge for the proper use of the equipment, which could compromise their integrity and that of the patient as a subject who receives unsafe care.

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Moura, M. S. S. de, Santos E Silva, R. K. D., Mendes, P. M., Sousa, A. S. de J., & Carvalho Neto, F. J. de. (2021). Knowledge and use of personal protective equipment by nursing professionals during the Covid-19 pandemic. Revista Da Escola de Enfermagem Da U S P, 55, e20210125. https://doi.org/10.1590/1980-220X-REEUSP-2021-0125

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