Table 5.
Risk factors of laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection at month 3 in high-risk healthcare workers, accounting for adherence to personal protective equipment recommendations (after imputation of missing data; N = 916)).
| Bivariate analysis | Multivariable analysis | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OR | [95% CI] | p value | OR | [95% CI] | p value | |
| Age | 0.99 | [0.97; 1.01] | 0.24 | 0.99 | [0.97; 1.016] | 0.51 |
| Women | 1.07 | [0.70; 1.62] | 0.74 | 0.99 | [0.60; 1.65] | 0.89 |
| Working in a referent hospital for emerging biological risk | 0.97 | [0.67; 1.42] | 0.80 | 1.20 | [0.77; 1.86] | 0.43 |
| Working department | 0.0001 | 0.01 | ||||
| Intensive care unit | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Emergency department | 1.93 | [1.17; 3.18] | 1.86 | [1.05; 3.31] | ||
| Infectious diseases department | 3.10 | [1.85; 5.22] | 2.38 | [1.30; 4.35] | ||
| Professional category | 0.17 | 0.25 | ||||
| Physicians | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Medical students | 1.80 | [0.93; 3.49] | 1.76 | [0.69; 4.51] | ||
| Care assistants | 0.82 | [0.45; 1.47] | 1.21 | [0.58; 2.50] | ||
| Nurses | 1.19 | [0.74; 1.92] | 1.75 | [0.96; 3.18] | ||
| Experience in the department ≥ 12 months | 0.77 | [0.51; 1.16] | 0.22 | 1.26 | [0.63; 2.52] | 0.55 |
| Experience in the job ≥ 12 months | 0.87 | [0.48; 1.56] | 0.65 | 0.92 | [0.39; 2.18] | 0.77 |
| Night shift | 0.93 | [0.54; 1.61] | 0.80 | 0.93 | [0.47; 1.83] | 0.83 |
| Public transportation use | 1.34 | [0.91; 1.99] | 0.14 | 1.28 | [0.83; 1.95] | 0.27 |
| Active smoker | 0.37 | [0.21; 0.66] | 0.0006 | 0.36 | [0.20; 0.64] | 0.0006 |
| Adherence to PPE recommendations over the study perioda | ||||||
| Wear a surgical mask < 4 | 0.70 | [0.29; 1.67] | 0.44 | 0.57 | [0.21; 1.57] | 0.28 |
| Wear an N95 mask to take nasopharyngeal swabs < 4 | 1.02 | [0.61; 1.71] | 0.71 | 1.02 | [0.56; 1.87] | 0.71 |
| Wearing an N95 mask to handle a confirmed COVID-19 case < 4 | 1.58 | [0.99; 2.51] | 0.06 | 1.36 | [0.78; 2.35] | 0.29 |
| If wearing a mask (surgical or FFP2), change every 4 h < 4 | 1.35 | [0.90; 2.04] | 0.16 | 1.32 | [0.82; 2.13] | 0.26 |
Data are n (%) for qualitative variables; median [interquartile range] for quantitative variables; OR: odds ratio; CI: confidence interval.
aCollected at the end of the study on a 5-point Likert scale (0 = never to 5 = systematically), reported as the proportion of HCW rating 4 or 5; PPE: personal protective equipment.