Hospital-wide SARS-CoV-2 antibody screening of staff in a university psychiatric centre in Belgium

Abdellati, Kawtar El; Coppens, Violette; Goossens, Jobbe; Theeten, Heidi; Damme, Pierre Van; Berens, Ann; Morrens, Manuel; Picker, Livia De

doi:10.1192/bjo.2020.172

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“…Some studies have not identified an association between SARS-CoV-2 infection in HCP and close contact with COVID-19 patients in the workplace ( 13 – 18 ). Our analysis, however, showed that assisting COVID-19 patients with ADL was independently associated with being an HCP case.…”

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confidence: 99%

Risk Factors for SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among US Healthcare Personnel, May–December 2020

Chea¹,

Brown²,

Eure³

et al. 2022

Emerg. Infect. Dis.

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To determine risk factors for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) among US healthcare personnel (HCP), we conducted a case–control analysis. We collected data about activities outside the workplace and COVID-19 patient care activities from HCP with positive severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) test results (cases) and from HCP with negative test results (controls) in healthcare facilities in 5 US states. We used conditional logistic regression to calculate adjusted matched odds ratios and 95% CIs for exposures. Among 345 cases and 622 controls, factors associated with risk were having close contact with persons with COVID-19 outside the workplace, having close contact with COVID-19 patients in the workplace, and assisting COVID-19 patients with activities of daily living. Protecting HCP from COVID-19 may require interventions that reduce their exposures outside the workplace and improve their ability to more safely assist COVID-19 patients with activities of daily living.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Risk Factors for SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among US Healthcare Personnel, May–December 2020

Chea¹,

Brown²,

Eure³

et al. 2022

Emerg. Infect. Dis.

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“…[8][9][10]22 A serosurvey of the staff working in mental health services One paper in the thematic series reports the first published serosurvey among psychiatric healthcare providers showing a lower seroprevalence compared with the results from other studies in the general population and other healthcare workers in Belgium. 51 This paper reports 3.2% of psychiatric providers were seropositive, 51 whereas the proportion of staff in a tertiary medical centre were reported as 6.4%. 52 Exposure at home predicted the presence of antibodies, but exposure at work did not.…”

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Narrative review of the COVID-19, healthcare and healthcarers thematic series

Williams

Kaufman

2022

BJPsych open

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Summary This review covers the thematic series of 22 papers selected from among manuscripts published by BJPsych Open concerning coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and healthcare. We report nine papers that cover concepts and epidemiology relating to the public and patients. We review 11 papers about the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare services and their staff in 15 countries. Two papers consider the psychosocial impact on staff working in mental health services in the UK. Most papers report cross-sectional analyses of data collected from convenience samples by self-reported surveys conducted at single times. They have limitations of generalisability, do not enable conclusions about diagnosis or causality, and many are likely to have attendant bias and noise. BJPsych Open published these papers to meet requirements for early indications of the mental health impact of COVID-19 on the public and on healthcare staff. They claim high prevalence of symptoms of anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress. We contrast these findings with selected reports of studies with different methodologies published elsewhere. We emphasise the need for longitudinal clinical studies with refined sampling and methodological rigour. We identify several longitudinal research programmes; two in this series. We advocate tuning advice offered about caring for the public and healthcare staff to the realities of their circumstances and their perceptions of need in the context of findings from further longitudinal studies. We draw attention to the importance of the social, relationship and environmental circumstances of the public and healthcare staff in order to understand their distress and their risks of developing mental health disorders.

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“…Compliance with containment measures such as social distancing, disinfection, and mask wearing should be advised; where this is difficult, possible compartmentalization of patients and health-care professionals can be considered. Adequate resources (such as PCR testing, masks, and disinfectants) should be made available to mental healthcare facilities [54]. In general, lockdowns should be avoided: psychiatric patients, and their families, may benefit from regular contact with the outside world, whereas prolonged home confinement may increase the levels of distress and social isolation, also worsening psychiatric symptomatology [55][56][57][58].…”

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Joint European policy on the COVID-19 risks for people with mental disorders: An umbrella review and evidence- and consensus-based recommendations for mental and public health

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As COVID-19 becomes endemic, identifying vulnerable population groups for severe infection outcomes and defining rapid and effective preventive and therapeutic strategies remains a public health priority. We performed an umbrella review, including comprehensive studies (meta-analyses and systematic reviews) investigating COVID-19 risk for infection, hospitalization, Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission, and mortality in people with psychiatric disorders, and outlined evidence-and consensus-based recommendations for overcoming potential barriers that psychiatric patients may experience in preventing and managing COVID-19, and defining optimal therapeutic options and current research priorities in psychiatry. We searched Web of Science, PubMed, and Ovid/PsycINFO databases up to 17 January 2022 for the umbrella review. We synthesized evidence, extracting when available pooled odd ratio estimates for the categories 'any mental disorder' and 'severe mental disorders'. The quality of each study was assessed using the AMSTAR-2 approach and ranking evidence quality. We identified four systematic review/meta-analysis combinations, one metaanalysis, and three systematic reviews, each including up to 28 original studies. Although we rated the quality of studies from moderate to low and the evidence ranged from highly suggestive to nonsignificant, we found consistent evidence that people with mental illness are at increased risk of COVID-19 infection, hospitalization and most importantly mortality, but not of ICU admission. The risk and the burden of COVID-19 in people with mental disorders, in particular those with severe mental illness, can no longer be ignored but demands urgent targeted and persistent action. Twentytwo recommendations are proposed to facilitate this process.

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Hospital-wide SARS-CoV-2 antibody screening of staff in a university psychiatric centre in Belgium

Cited by 6 publications

References 8 publications

Risk Factors for SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among US Healthcare Personnel, May–December 2020

Risk Factors for SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among US Healthcare Personnel, May–December 2020

Narrative review of the COVID-19, healthcare and healthcarers thematic series

Joint European policy on the COVID-19 risks for people with mental disorders: An umbrella review and evidence- and consensus-based recommendations for mental and public health

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