Associations Between Wearing Masks and Respiratory Viral Infections: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Respiratory viral infections (RVIs) are a major health concern, and some previous studies have shown that wearing masks was effective in preventing RVIs, while others failed to show such effect. Therefore, a systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of wearing masks.

Methods

PubMed, ScienceDirect, Web of Science, the Cochrane Library, EMBASE, MEDLINE, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), and Chinese Scientific Journal Database (VIP database) were searched for studies evaluating the effectiveness of wearing masks. The risk ratio (RR) was used to measure the effectiveness of wearing masks in preventing RVIs for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and cohort studies, and the odds ratio (OR) was used for case-control

SUBMITTER: Chen Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9092448 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature