Title
Prevention and control practices against Sars-Cov2 infection in the peruvian population
Other title
Prácticas de prevención y control frente a la infección por Sars-Cov2 en la población peruana
Date Issued
21 October 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Fernandez-Guzman D.
Ccami-Bernal F.
Rojas-Miliano C.
Sangster-Carrasco L.
Hernandez-Bustamante E.A.
Zamora-Huaringa E.G.
De-Los-Rios-Pinto A.
Publisher(s)
Medical Body of the Almanzor Aguinaga Asenjo National Hospital
Abstract
Objetive: To describe the prevention and control practices for the infection to SARS-COV2 in the Peruvian population. Material and Methods: Observational descriptive study. We evaluated a non-probabilistic sample of adult residents in some departments of Peru. Preventive practices were evaluated in people without a history of COVID-19 and control practices in people who had suffered it. Results: We evaluated 3630 Peruvians (mean age 25.4 ± 9.5), of that 3231 don't have a history of COVID-19 and 399 who had suffered it. The prevention and control practices that were realized often or always, with more frequencies, was the use of a mask when they go out home (97.9% vs 87.7), cover their nose or mouth when they sneeze (95.4% vs 89.9%), save the distance to other people in the street (91.4% vs 74.7%), wash their hands when they came home (92.5% vs 88.7%), and disinfect the objects and personal places (82.6% vs 77.4%). The 22.1% and 83.7%, the 59.7% and 80.2, and the 8.0% and 16.8% consumed some type of medicine, medicinal plant, and chlorine dioxide to prevent and control the infection, respectively. Conclusion: In general, less than 50% of the participants performed prevention and control practices against COVID-19 often or always.
Start page
13
End page
21
Volume
14
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Salud pública, Salud ambiental Enfermedades infecciosas Epidemiología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85119190060
Source
Revista del Cuerpo Medico Hospital Nacional Almanzor Aguinaga Asenjo
ISSN of the container
22255109
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