Table 2.
Healthcare Workers Perspectives on EVD
| Healthcare Workers Perspectives on Ebola | No. (%) |
|---|---|
| Think that the healthcare system in your hospital well equipped to deal with Ebola | 174 (44.1) |
| How often have you worried about contracting Ebola from a patient? | |
| Never/Once in a while | 353 (83.2) |
| Quite often/All the time | 71 (16.8) |
| Has the concern of acquiring Ebola as a result of patient care added to your stress level? | |
| Not at all/Very little | 333 (78.7) |
| Quite a bit/A lot | 90 (21.3) |
| If you had provided care to a patient with Ebola yesterday and you were currently asymptomatic, how concerned would you be that you would put your family/friends/coworkers at risk of Ebola? | |
| Not at all concerned | 39 (9.2) |
| Somewhat/Very concerned | 387 (90.8) |
| How willing would you be to provide care for a patient with Ebola if the care required by the patient is in your field of expertise? | |
| Always/somewhat willing to treat | 240 (56.1) |
| Neutral | 77 (18) |
| Somewhat/very unwilling to treat | 111 (25.9) |
| Think it is ethical to refuse to provide care for Ebola patients. | 105 (25.1) |
| Think it is ethical to refuse to provide care for patients with HIV/AIDS. | 53 (12.6) |
| Agree with a mandated quarantine of asymptomatic healthcare workers returning from West Africa. | 276 (66.7) |
| Agree with a mandated quarantine of asymptomatic healthcare workers caring for Ebola patients in the United States. | 250 (59.8) |
| Will help a young boy lying on the street, unconscious and bleeding by compressing the bleeding area with your bare hands (no protective equipment). | 183 (43.9) |
| Will help a middle-aged man wearing a T-shirt that said “proud to be a Liberian” lying on the street, unconscious and bleeding by compressing the bleeding area with your bare hands (no protective equipment). | 124 (30) |
Abbreviations: AIDS, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; EVD, Ebola virus disease; HIV, human immunodeficiency virus.