Sobh, Ahmed M.A.1, Saad, Mahmoud M.1, AbdElazeem, Hossam Aldein S.2, Saied, Mohamed Hossam3, Qatora, Mostafa Shehata4, Hager, Eman Ibrahim5, AboRaya, Hossam6, ELassy, Mohamed AbdELRhman7, Amin, Mariam T.8, Abdelbadee, Ahmed Y.1
1Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine- Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt, 2Faculty of Medicine- Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt, 3Faculty of Medicine- Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, 4Faculty of Medicine- Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt, 5Faculty of Medicine- Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt, 6Faculty of Medicine- Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt, 7Faculty of Medicine- Port-said University, Port-said, Egypt, 8Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine- Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt
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Objectives: The recent spread of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) led to a shortage of health care providers in all countries. The study aims to measure the readiness of Egyptian house-officers to be part of the health system facing the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: A cross-sectional online questionnaire was conducted on a sample of house-officers from different universities during May 2020. It has consisted of 17-items divided into three parts. The first part includes participant demographics. The second part includes questions about the source of their information about COVID-19, attendance of any online courses or specialized training by the university, their perception of their skills if qualified to deal with COVID-19 cases or not, and availability of personal protective equipment (PPE) in hospitals. The third part includes questions of their knowledge about symptoms, investigations, proper use of PPE, prevention of transmission from an infected patient, protective measures during procedures as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, endotracheal intubation, and tracheostomy for COVID-19 patients
Results: Nine-hundred seventy-four Egyptian house-officers participated in this study. Only 38.8% of respondents agreed to be a member of the COVID-19 management team, 70.4% of participants depend on social media as a source for their information. From all respondents, only 11.9% thought that they are qualified to deal with COVID-19 cases. For their preparedness for the COVID-19 situation, only 22.9% attended online courses, and 31.5% received specialized training from their universities.
Conclusions: Egyptian house-officers need more training before being involved in the health care system for facing COVID-19.
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