None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
With the emergence of the novel COVID-19 virus, medical staff are continuing to expose and put themselves at risk in their day to day work. This virus is known to spread through primarily droplet exposure. Frontline medical staff are at highest risk in being exposed to droplets from the potential asymptomatic or mild COVID-19 individuals. A simple, but effective, means to reduce droplet spread is the use of face masks. However, wearing face masks outside operating theatres is not routine practice in Australian Hospitals, as such, there is concern that it could cause fear and anxiety in already stressed patients. Such concern has caused a dilemma among some medical staff with regards to masking or de-masking while at work. In order to find out whether this concern is real, i.e., how patients feel about the change in practice by medical staff wearing face masks, we designed this written questionnaire survey to examine patients’ attitudes towards masking the medical staff at work during COVID-19 pandemic.
Interventions
This is a study-specific survey focusing on determining the patient's perceptions of mask-wearing by medical staff and the relationship with the daily consumption of COVID19 information. It takes approximately 1-2 minutes to complete the anonymous written questionnaire survey.
Patients need to complete the survey only once when they are admitted to the hospital, there is no follow up survey for that particular patient. However, if they are readmitted to our hospital during the study period (Ma
This is a study-specific survey focusing on determining the patient's perceptions of mask-wearing by medical staff and the relationship with the daily consumption of COVID19 information. It takes approximately 1-2 minutes to complete the anonymous written questionnaire survey. Patients need to complete the survey only once when they are admitted to the hospital, there is no follow up survey for that particular patient. However, if they are readmitted to our hospital during the study period (March to August 2020), they are potentially surveyed again, but this is not patient-specific but time-specific, i.e., admissions during the study period
Sponsors
Maroondah Hospital
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
16 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Patients admitted to Maroondah and Box Hill Hospital of Eastern Health for surgical or medical reasons
Exclusion criteria
- Younger than 16 years - Intellectual disability or dementia - Language barrier, visual or hearing impairment - Suspected or confirmed COVID-19
Outcome results
None listed