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Camus, J., Figueroa, L., Domínguez, O. (2021). Nivel de conocimiento sobre las medidas de bioseguridad en la obtención y procesamiento de muestras COVID-19 en personal de laboratorio clínico de Lima Metropolitana-2021 [Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/9751
Camus, J., Figueroa, L., Domínguez, O. Nivel de conocimiento sobre las medidas de bioseguridad en la obtención y procesamiento de muestras COVID-19 en personal de laboratorio clínico de Lima Metropolitana-2021 []. PE: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia; 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/9751
@misc{renati/1280228,
title = "Nivel de conocimiento sobre las medidas de bioseguridad en la obtención y procesamiento de muestras COVID-19 en personal de laboratorio clínico de Lima Metropolitana-2021",
author = "Domínguez Moreno, Omar Absalon",
publisher = "Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia",
year = "2021"
}
Background: Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused the collapse of health systems, being health professionals from all levels those who have a major risk of infection. Within this population are those who work in clinical laboratory area, being directly in charge of handle biological material of patients suspected of this disease. Objectives: To describe the level of biosafety knowledge in obtaining and processing COVID-19 samples in health professionals in health centers in Metropolitan Lima. Materials and methods: We used a virtual questionnaire with 24 questions related to general characteristics and to the levels of biosafety knowledge in 69 health professionals in clinical laboratory area that work with COVID-19 samples. Results: The level of knowledge of the participants was divided into three levels, reaching 20.3% at the high level, 58% at the medium level and 21.7% at the low level. Regarding to sex, 26.8% and 10.7% of women and men showed a higher level of knowledge, respectively. On the other hand, a greatest frequency of high level of knowledge was observed in professionals that works in private clinics (25%), sample processing areas (21.2%), and in those with more than 10 years of experience (23.8%). Finally, between all participants, medical technologists had the highest frequency of advance knowledge (22.9%). Conclusion: a low frequency of professionals in the clinical laboratory area with high levels of biosafety knowledge was observed. It is considered that continuous training campaigns should be carried out to increase this frequency in health personnel handling COVID-19 samples.
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