Assessment of potential risk factors for COVID-19 among health care workers in a health care setting in Delhi, India -a cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Healthcare workers (HCW) are most vulnerable to contracting COVID-19 infection. Understanding the extent of human-to-human transmission of the COVID-19 infection among HCWs is critical in managing this infection and for policy making. We did this study to estimate new infection by seroconversion among HCWs in recent contact with COVID-19 and predict the risk factors for infection.

Methods

A cohort study was conducted at a tertiary care COVID-19 hospital in New Delhi during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. All HCWs working in the hospital during the study period who came in recent contact with the patients were our study population. The data was collected by a detailed face-to-face interview, serological assessment for anti- COVID-19 antibodie

SUBMITTER: Dudeja M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9858779 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature