Incidence of facial pressure injuries in health-care professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Int J Nurs Pract
; 29(2): e13125, 2023 Apr.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2282750
ABSTRACT
AIM:
To evaluate the incidence of facial pressure injuries in health-care professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic in a meta-analysis.METHODS:
Related studies were obtained through electronic databases, including PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) Chinese Scientific Journal (VIP) China Biomedical Literature service systems (CBM) and Wanfang Data (from inception to 27 November 2021). The pooled incidence and the 95% confidence interval of facial pressure injuries were calculated with Review Manager v5.4 software.RESULTS:
Overall, 16 studies with 14 430 health-care professionals were included. Pooled results showed that the pooled incidence of facial pressure injury in health-care professionals was 58.8% (95% CI 49.0%-68.7%; p < 0.01). The results of the subgroup analysis showed that the incidence of facial pressure injury in these staff was high, and predominantly stage I pressure injury, in the following cases in health-care professionals who wore personal protective equipment for longer than 4 h, in those without any training experience, and on the nose.CONCLUSION:
Administrators and researchers should pay attention to preventing facial pressure injury related to the wearing of personal protective equipment (PPE) by ensuring all health-care professionals receive training and by limiting prolonged periods of use.Keywords
Full text:
Available
Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pressure Ulcer
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Reviews
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Systematic review/Meta Analysis
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Int J Nurs Pract
Journal subject:
Nursing
Year:
2023
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Ijn.13125
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