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COVID-19: Repeatedly Video-Watching vs Combined Video-Watching and Live Demonstration as Training to Healthcare Providers for Donning and Doffing Personal Protective Equipment
26 Pages Posted: 4 Jun 2020
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Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, we lacked personal protective equipment (PPE) as well as training in PPE donning and doffing. In order to enable medical staff to learn how to don and doff PPE better and faster, we compared two training methods of donning and doffing PPE.
Methods: We have recruited 48 health care workers and randomly divided them into two groups. Group A watched the 10-minute demonstration(demo) video and repeated it four times, while Group B watched the 10-minute demo video twice and then watched the 10-minute live demo twice. The learning time of the two groups was the same. The examination was held immediately after the completion of the training. Record the examination scores of Group A and Group B according to Checklist(Appendix 1). The time taken for the participants to don and doff PPE, the satisfaction with the training, and the confidence to don and doff PPE accurately were analyzed.
Results: The average score of the Group B was better than Group A, with a mean(SD) of 94.92(1.72) vs 86.63(6.34), respectively(P<0.001). The average time spent in group B is shorter than that in group A, with a mean(SD) of 17.67(1.01) vs 21.75(1.82), respectively(P<0.001). And the satisfaction and confidence of group B were higher than that of group A(P<0.001).
Conclusions: Compared with simple video learning, we find that video + live demonstration teaching method is more suitable for medical staff to learn how to don and doff PPE.
Funding Statement: Funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81673922, 81503663,81704167) and the Guangzhou Science and Technology Plan Project (No.201707010297).
Declaration of Interests: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
Ethics Approval Statement: The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the first affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, and all the participants received informed consent.
Keywords: COVID-19; Coronavirus Disease; Personal Protective Equipment; Training
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