incidence Risk and Cumulative Risk of COVID-19 Infection among Healthcare Workers over the First Year of the Pandemic
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.48047/Keywords:
.Abstract
Objectives
To analyze the spread rate and the cumulative risk of COVID-19 infection among
healthcare workers (HCWs) over the first year of the pandemic.
Method
An online, cross-sectional study involved HCWs who were in-service during the first
year of COVID-19 crisis, including all healthcare institutions of Jeddah. History and
date of COVID-19 infection were collected to estimate the COVID-19-free time, by
reference to 03 March 2020, when the first case in Saudi Arabia was identified.
Kaplan-Meier survival and Cox regression methods were used to analyze the
cumulative risk of COVID-19 infection and the associated factorsÂ