Is home isolation appropriate for preventing the spread of COVID-19

Feng, Zhanhui; Cheng, Yongran; Ye, Lan; Zhou, Mengyun; Wang, Ming Wei; Chen, Juan

doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2020.03.008

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“…Rather, these safety implications also include factors related to the non-physical safety and mental wellbeing of the public and particularly medical professionals, as well as issues related to the protection of social safety, food safety, patient transport safety and the biosafety of facilities and laboratories. As evidenced by this review, a great portion of the knowledge that is being leveraged today in the fight against the COVID-19 disease has been obtained as a result of the research efforts that were made in response to previous pandemics of similar nature (Bruinen de Bruin et al, 2020; De Giorgio, 2020; Feng et al, 2020;Hatchett et al, 2007;Lee et al, 2020;Viner et al, 2020;Wang et al, 2020d;Zhang and Qian, 2020).…”

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The scientific literature on Coronaviruses, COVID-19 and its associated safety-related research dimensions: A scientometric analysis and scoping review

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“…32 Homeless families are at higher risk of viral transmission because of crowded living that increases the risk of transmission. 33 The number of Houseless population (person per thousand) in districts have been taken as a variable. In any society, the economically weaker section has limited access to resources, health facilities that make them vulnerable to the disease.…”

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COVID-19: District level vulnerability assessment in India

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Chouhan²

2021

Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health

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Objectives COVID-19 Pandemic has brought a threatening challenge to the world and as well as for Indian society and economy. In India, it has become a public health disaster and its' intensity increasing continuously. For the disaster risk reduction, and capacity building against the COVID-19 pandemic understanding of the relationship between socio-environmental conditions with the pandemic is very necessary. The objective of the present work is to construct a socio-environmental vulnerability index of the potential risk of community spread of COVID-19 using socio-economic and environmental variables. Methodology In this, cross-sectional study principal component analyses have been used to drive SoEVI. 4 uncorrelated sub-index has been extracted from 16 sub-indicators which reflects 59% of the variance. Aggregation of 4 Sub-Index has been done to obtain the final vulnerability Index. Results Results show that there is spatial variability in vulnerability based on environmental and socio-economic conditions. Districts of north and central India found more vulnerable then south India. Statistical significance has been tested using regression analysis, positive relation has been found between vulnerability index and confirmed and active cases. Conclusion The vulnerability index has highlighted environmentaly and socioeconomicallybackward districts. These areas will suffer more critical problems against COVID-19 pandemic for their socio-environmental problem.

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“…The spread of the virus is characterized by human-to-human transmission [ 2 ], and cannot be prevented by simply wearing facial masks. The only way to control this disease is to cut off the route of transmission, and home isolation is appropriate for preventing the spread of COVID-19 [ 3 , 4 ]. Countries around the world implemented measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus, from national quarantines to school closures.…”

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Psychological distress among Italians during the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) quarantine

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Background Quarantine as a preventive action to reduce people’s exposure to a contagious disease has substantial psychological impact. We aimed to collect information on psychologically distressing experiences of Italians living in quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods From 6 to 20 April 2020 participants filled out an online questionnaire. Demographic and physical symptoms data from the prior 14 days of quarantine were collected. Psychological impact of quarantine was assessed by the COVID-19 Peritraumatic Distress Index (CPDI). Results In all, 20,158 participants completed the online survey. Of these, 11,910 (59.1%) were from Lombardy, the region with 37.7% of positive cases identified during the survey period. 30.1% of responders were male. About half (55.9%) of responders were 18–50 years old, 54.3% had a tertiary level of education, 69.5% were workers, 84.1% were living in houses with ≥3 rooms, and 13.7% were living alone. 9.7% had had contact with COVID-19 positive people. Of all responders, 9978 (48.6%) reported a psychological impact, 8897 (43.4%) of whom reported mild or moderate and 1081 (5.2%) severe psychological impact. The multivariate analysis, after adjustments, showed that an increasing CPDI score was associated with gender (female), first-second educational level, being unemployed, living in a ≤2 room house, having had new health problems during the previous 14 days, and not having been out of the house in the previous week. Concerning the type of psychological distress, 2003 responders (9.9%) reported moderate to severe depressive symptoms, 1131 (5.5%) moderate to severe anxiety symptoms, and 802 (3.9%) moderate to severe physical symptoms. A positive correlation was found between responder rate (per 10.000 residents) and positive COVID-19 cases (per 10.000 residents) by region (rs = + 0.83, p = < 0.0001), and between responder rate and region latitude (rs = + 0.91, p = < 0.0001), with a greater response rate in the north. Considering Lombardy Region responders, a negative correlation between CPDI score and distance from place of residence to the red zone (Nembro-Alzano) was found. Higher prevalence of psychological distress was found up to 25 km away from the red zone and, in particular, severe distress up to 15 km. Conclusions Policy makers and mental health professionals should be aware of quarantine’s adverse mental health consequences. Factors influencing the success of quarantine and infection control practices for both disease containment and community recovery should be identified and additional support to vulnerable persons at increased risk of adverse psychological and social consequences of quarantine should be guaranteed.

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Is home isolation appropriate for preventing the spread of COVID-19

Cited by 26 publications

References 3 publications

The scientific literature on Coronaviruses, COVID-19 and its associated safety-related research dimensions: A scientometric analysis and scoping review

The scientific literature on Coronaviruses, COVID-19 and its associated safety-related research dimensions: A scientometric analysis and scoping review

COVID-19: District level vulnerability assessment in India

Psychological distress among Italians during the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) quarantine

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