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: Received: 30 January 2024 / Approved: 30 January 2024 / Online: 30 January 2024 (10:48:44 CET)
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Menon, L.K.; Wisniak, A.; Regard, S.; Stringhini, S.; Guessous, I.; Balavoine, J.; Kherad, O. The Impact of Non-pharmaceutical Interventions on COVID-19 in Workers and Residents of Nursing Homes in Geneva: A Mixed-Methods Study. Preprints2024, 2024012086. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.2086.v1
Menon, L.K.; Wisniak, A.; Regard, S.; Stringhini, S.; Guessous, I.; Balavoine, J.; Kherad, O. The Impact of Non-pharmaceutical Interventions on COVID-19 in Workers and Residents of Nursing Homes in Geneva: A Mixed-Methods Study. Preprints 2024, 2024012086. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.2086.v1
Menon, L.K.; Wisniak, A.; Regard, S.; Stringhini, S.; Guessous, I.; Balavoine, J.; Kherad, O. The Impact of Non-pharmaceutical Interventions on COVID-19 in Workers and Residents of Nursing Homes in Geneva: A Mixed-Methods Study. Preprints2024, 2024012086. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.2086.v1
APA Style
Menon, L.K., Wisniak, A., Regard, S., Stringhini, S., Guessous, I., Balavoine, J., & Kherad, O. (2024). The Impact of Non-pharmaceutical Interventions on COVID-19 in Workers and Residents of Nursing Homes in Geneva: A Mixed-Methods Study. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.2086.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Menon, L.K., Jean-François Balavoine and Omar Kherad. 2024 "The Impact of Non-pharmaceutical Interventions on COVID-19 in Workers and Residents of Nursing Homes in Geneva: A Mixed-Methods Study" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.2086.v1
Abstract
Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), including social distancing, wearing personal protective equipment, and lockdown measures, have been at the forefront of outbreak control in nursing homes. We used a mixed methodology to assess which NPIs nursing homes in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland, followed for their staff and residents during the first wave of the pandemic, between March 1, 2020 and June 1, 2020. For the qualitative component, we interviewed the attending physicians and/or director of each nursing home. Based on in-vivo codes, NPIs for nursing home workers and residents in each nursing home were thematically classified as: maximally restrictive, moderately restrictive, and minimally restrictive. In the quantitative component, we calculated incident rate ratios (IRR) for infection between the three levels of COVID-19-related measures taken in these nursing homes. We found an equal distribution of maximally (n=4), moderately (n=4), and minimally (n=4) restrictive NPIs. The extent of restriction did not show to be significantly associated with the cumulative incidence of COVID-19 cases among residents (maximally restrictive IRR = 3.90, 95%CI 0.82-45.54, p = 0.184; moderately restrictive IRR = 3.55, 95%CI 0.75-41.42, p = 0.212 ; minimally restrictive IRR = reference). Variabilities in NPIs adopted by nursing homes, and the number of COVID-19 cases appear to be randomly affected.
Public Health and Healthcare, Public Health and Health Services
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