Masks for at-risk population: nursing promoting biosafety in pandemic times.
Rev Gaucha Enferm
; 42(spe): e20200276, 2021.
Article
in English, Portuguese
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1243895
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To describe a proposal for making and distributing masks for population in risk, with guidance on the stages of making them and the care in handling them based on the development of educational video and infographic.METHOD:
Experience report on the stages of the process of training people to make fabric masks for the population at risk, between March and June 2020, in a city in the interior of São Paulo.RESULTS:
1,650 masks were made and distributed to vulnerable population groups from different contexts and tutorial video and infographic were elaborated and released to enable people to make their own masks with resources available at home. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS It was possible to manufacture and distribute masks for the population at risk and develop educational actions to contain the disease, given the advance of confirmed cases and deaths by Covid-19, corroborating the role of nursing in health education.
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Containment of Biohazards
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Vulnerable Populations
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COVID-19
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Masks
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Randomized controlled trials
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
South America
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Brazil
Language:
English
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Portuguese
Journal:
Rev Gaucha Enferm
Journal subject:
Nursing
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
1983-1447.2021.20200276
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