Table 2.
Respondents’ health status and characteristics of working environment
| N (%) | |
|---|---|
| Received influenza vaccine in the season 2019–20 | 128 (33.0) |
| Health problems requiring chronic drug therapy | 63 (16.2) |
| Presence of at least one typical symptom (fever, dry cough, myalgia) in the past 14 days | 95 (24.5) |
| COVID-19 positive cases that respondents have come in close contact with | |
| Patients within the working centre | 370 (95.4) |
| Patients within the working unit | 219 (56.4) |
| Colleagues within the working unit |
186 (47.9) 101 (26.0) |
| Family members or friends | |
| Involvement in the extraordinary management of COVID-19 patients with tasks beyond respondent’s own specialty | 87 (22.4) |
| Indications for COVID-19 screening at the workplace | |
| No screening is planned for healthcare workers | 122 (31.4) |
| Screening occurs if symptomatic or close contact with COVID-19 cases | 217 (55.9) |
| All healthcare workers are screened | 49 (12.6) |
| Respondents tested for COVID-19 | 98 (25.3) |
| More than once | 39 (39.8) |
| Due to symptoms | 6 (15.4) |
| Due to local screening policy in absence of symptoms | 28 (71.8) |
| Due to a new close contact at risk | 5 (12.8) |
| Symptomatic at the time of first testing | 33 (33.7) |
| Testing positive for COVID-19 | 18 (4.6) |
| At first testing | 13 (72.2) |
| At second testing | 1 (5.6) |
| At third testing | 4 (22.2) |
| Infection did likely occur while working | |
| Yes | 16 (88.9) |
| No | 1 (5.6) |
| Uncertain | 1 (5.6) |
| Regular use of personal protective equipment | |
| No | 6 (33.3) |
| Yes, everyone entering the workplace | 9 (50.0) |
| Yes, but only the respondent | 3 (16.7) |
| Use of medical therapy | 11 (61.1) |
| Specific therapy for COVID-19 | 6 (54.5) |
| NSAIDs | 2 (18.2) |
| Both | 5 (45.4) |
| Required hospital admission | 1 (5.6) |
| Required O2-therapy | 1 (5.6) |
| Quarantined | 42 (10.8) |
| Readily availability of personal protective equipment | 298 (76.8) |
| Quantity and quality rating | |
| Adequate | 64 (21.5) |
| Partially adequate | 73 (24.5) |
| Inadequate | 161 (54.0) |
| Number of intensive care unit beds before the outbreak | |
| < 5 | 20 (5.1) |
| 5–10 | 70 (18.0) |
| 11–15 | 98 (25.3) |
| > 15 | 123 (31.7) |
| I do not know | 77 (19.9) |
| Number of intensive care unit beds during COVID-19 emergency at the workplace | |
| Increased | 317 (81.7) |
| With increase in dedicated staffing | 133 (42.0) |
| Without increase in dedicated staffing | 80 (25.2) |
| Remained unaltered | 31 (8.0) |
| Activation of local protocols for management of COVID-19 patients | 336 (86.6) |
| Personally contributed to its development | 66 (19.6) |
| Comply with its requirements | 204 (60.7) |
| Deaths related to COVID-19 occurred at the workplace | 247 (63.7) |
| Management was correct, with cause of death most likely resulting from respiratory failure | |
| Yes | 114 (46.1) |
| No | 33 (13.4) |
| I do not know | 100 (40.5) |
| Number of deaths likely resulting from suboptimal bed capacity | |
| More than 50% | 11 (4.4) |
| Less than 50% but still significant | 34 (13.8) |
| Very few | 47 (19.0) |
| None | 155 (62.8) |
| Number of deaths likely resulting from non-compliance to protocols | |
| More than 50% | 21 (8.9) |
| Less than 50% but still significant | 26 (10.5) |
| Very few | 96 (38.8) |
| None | 104 (42.1) |
| 10-point Likert scale rating (1 = extremely poor; 10 = excellent) of the local management of COVID-19 emergency, mean (standard deviation) | 5.7 (1.8) |
| Perceive psychological safety | |
| Over the last few weeks | 77 (19.8) |
| Currently | 97 (25.0) |
| Believe to have been the source of infection | |
| For patients | 29 (7) |
| For work colleagues | 35 (9) |
| For family members | 33 (9) |
| At least one work colleague died from COVID-19 | 27 (7.0) |
| At least one family member or friend died from COVID-19 | 46 (11.9) |
| Believe that psychological support for healthcare workers is useful during COVID-19 emergency | 247 (63.7) |
| Psychological support available at the workplace | 187 (48.2) |
| Currently receiving psychological support | 13 (3.3) |
| Workload over last few weeks | |
| Decreased | 162 (41.8) |
| Unaltered | 56 (14.4) |
| Slightly increased | 58 (15.0) |
| Moderately increased | 61 (15.7) |
| Extremely increased | 32 (8.2) |
| Increased to the extreme of own strengths | 19 (4.9) |