Table 1.

Characteristics of participants

Variables	Description	No of participants
Gender	Male	9
	Female	21
Profession	Qualified nurse	11
	Nurse assistant	2
	Physiotherapist	2
	Cleaning/technical staff	2
	Medical doctors:
	Infectious disease expert	3
	Anaesthesiologist	2
	Neurologist	2
	Other (eg, surgeon)	6
Work units*	COVID-19 intensive care	13
	COVID-19 non-intensive care	5
	COVID-19 intensive care and non-intensive care	2
	COVID-19 other†	4
	Other‡	6
Age (years)	21–30	7
	31–40	10
	41–50	8
	51–60	5

*Refers to the units that HCWs were assigned to.

†Includes ‘pop-up’ COVID-19 units and intermediate care units.

‡Non-COVID-19 units with direct or indirect contact with patients with COVID-19.

HCWs, healthcare workers.