Table 2.
Responses of health-care workers to concern statements about the MERS outbreak in Saudi Arabia
| Agree/Strongly agree n (%) |
Disagree/Strongly disagree n (%) |
|
|---|---|---|
| A. Self-satisfaction domain | ||
| 1. I feel unsafe working at my workplace. | 379 (36.8) | 652 (63.2) |
| 2. I feel anxious while working with a febrile patient. | 434 (42.1) | 597 (57.9) |
| 3. I feel at risk to contract a MERS-CoV infection at work. | 726 (70.4) | 305 (29.6) |
| 4. I feel obliged to care for a MERS-CoV-infected patient. | 628 (60.9) | 403 (39.1) |
| 5. I feel hopeless I might eventually get a MERS-CoV at work. | 366 (35.5) | 665 (64.5) |
| 6. I feel threatened if one of my colleagues contracted MERS-CoV. | 712 (69.1) | 319 (30.9) |
| 7. If I get MERS-CoV, I don’t feel confident an employee will care for me? | 345 (33.5) | 686 (66.5) |
| B. Social status-related domain | ||
| 1. I feel that I should limit my social activities due to MERS-CoV. | 402 (39.0) | 629 (61.0) |
| 2. I feel I will transmit MERS-CoV to my family members. | 458 (45.1) | 573 (54.9) |
| 3. I feel that my family members avoid me since I work in hospital. | 106 (10.3) | 925 (89.7) |
| 4. I feel I should avoid leaving my home due to MERS-CoV. | 167 (16.2) | 864 (83.8) |
| 5. I feel my family will not look after me if I was infected. | 89 (8.6) | 942 (91.4) |
| 6. I don’t feel confident telling my family and friends if I was infected. | 181 (17.6) | 850 (82.4) |
| C. Workplace-related domain | ||
| 1. I feel that my institution didn’t support me during the MERS-CoV crisis. | 163 (15.8) | 868 (84.2) |
| 2. I feel that my institution is losing control of the MERS-CoV crisis. | 135 (13.1) | 896 (86.9) |
| 3. I feel overwhelmed with the new MERS-CoV regulations. | 491 (47.6) | 540 (52.4) |
| 4. I feel MERS-CoV crisis increased my workload. | 377 (36.6) | 654 (63.4) |
| 5. I feel that the increase in workload was not meet with proper staffing. | 502 (48.7) | 529 (51.3) |
| 6. I feel absence from work reduces the chance of getting MERS-CoV. | 169 (16.4) | 862 (83.6) |
| 7. In case I had MERS-CoV, I feel ashamed telling my manager/colleagues. | 93 (9.0) | 938 (91.0) |
| 8. I feel I should change my current job due to MERS-CoV crisis. | 73 (7.1) | 958 (92.9) |
| D. Infection control-related domain | ||
| 1. I am not confident with the current infection control measures. | 151 (14.6) | 880 (85.4) |
| 2. I don’t feel proper infection control training has been offered to me. | 219 (21.2) | 812 (78.8) |
| 3. I don’t feel an infection specialist is accessible to respond to my concerns. | 141 (13.7) | 890 (86.3) |
| 4. I don’t feel there is MERS-CoV outbreak plan set at my area. | 296 (28.7) | 735 (71.3) |
| 5. I don’t feel safe at work when I use the standard precautions. | 906 (87.9) | 125 (12.1) |
| E. Government-related domain | ||
| 1. I feel the government should restrict travel from /to areas of disease. | 760 (73.7) | 271 (26.3) |
| 2. I feel the government should isolate MERS-CoV cases in special hospitals | 904 (87.7) | 127 (12.3) |
| 3. I feel government should avoid inviting expatriates infected areas. | 673 (65.3) | 358 (34.7) |
| 4. I feel schools and shopping markets need to be closed to control MERS-CoV. | 196 (19.0) | 835 (81.0) |
| 5. I don’t feel MERS-CoV has been highlighted and discussed efficiently in media. | 245 (23.8) | 786 (76.2) |
Abbreviation: MERS-CoV Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus