Table 2.
Association between sociodemographic and exposure related factors, and COVID-19 test being positive among the primary contacts.
| Variable | COVID -19 |
Total | p valuea | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Negative | |||
| Low risk | 72 (4.4) | 1558 (95.6) | 1630 (87.7) | p < 0.001 |
| High risk | 34 (14.9) | 194 (85.1) | 228 (12.3) | |
| Gender | ||||
| Male | 13 (5.1) | 242 (94.9) | 255 (13.7) | 0.65 |
| Female | 93 (5.8) | 1510 (94.2) | 1603 (86.3) | |
| Designation | ||||
| Doctors | 11 (4.1) | 258 (95.9) | 269 (14.5) | 0.17 |
| Nurses | 72 (5.5) | 1226 (94.5) | 1298 (69.9) | |
| Technical | 7 (10.4) | 60 (89.6) | 67 (3.6) | |
| Others | 16 (7.1) | 208 (92.9) | 224 (12.1) | |
| Source wearing mask | ||||
| Yes | 14 (3.9) | 345 (96.1) | 359 (19.3) | 0.10 |
| No | 92 (6.1) | 1407 (93.9) | 1499 (80.7) | |
| Distance from patient | ||||
| <1 m | 63 (5.4) | 1094 (94.6) | 1157 (62.3) | 0.53 |
| >1 m | 43 (6.1) | 658 (93.9) | 701 (37.7) | |
| Duration of contact | ||||
| <15min | 38 (5.3) | 679 (94.7) | 717 (38.6) | 0.55 |
| >15min | 68 (6.0) | 1073 (94.0) | 1141 (61.4) | |
| Hand hygiene | ||||
| No | 12 (7.0) | 159 (93.0) | 171 (9.2) | 0.43 |
| Yes | 94 (5.6) | 1593 (94.4) | 1687 (90.8) | |
| Aerosol generating procedures | ||||
| No | 87 (5.4) | 1511 (94.6) | 1598 (86.0) | 0.23 |
| Yes | 19 (7.3) | 241 (92.7) | 260 (14.0) | |
| Care to a COVID-19: breech of PPE | ||||
| No | 101 (5.7) | 1673 (94.3) | 1774 (95.5) | 0.92 |
| Yes | 5 (6.0) | 79 (94.0) | 84 (4.5) | |
| Accidental exposure to fluids | ||||
| Yes | 2 (5.2) | 36 (94.7) | 38 (2.04) | 0.22 |
| No | 88 (5.4) | 1538 (94.6) | 1626 (87.5) | |
| Do not know | 16 (8.2) | 178 (91.8) | 194 (10.4) | |
a
Chi-square test.