Doctors' and nurses' understanding of biosafety before the COVID-19 pandemic and now: a qualitative study.

• Grant number: 24/13942-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: October 01, 2024
• End date: September 30, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Collective Health - Preventive Medicine
• Principal Investigator: Alessandra Mazzo
• Grantee: Gabriel Pires Vieira de Oliveira
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Medicina. Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Campus Bauru. Bauru , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic, which began in 2020, urgently implemented successive biosafety protocols, especially to protect healthcare professionals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Although the pandemic landscape has evolved and many countries have made significant progress in vaccination and transmission control, the importance of biosafety cannot be underestimated. This study aims to verify the understanding of doctors and nurses regarding biosafety before the COVID-19 pandemic and currently. This is a qualitative study, to be carried out in a university and public tertiary hospital located in the interior of the state of São Paulo. Doctors and nurses will participate in work activities during the collection period, who worked at least six months before data collection and who were active during the pandemic. Data will be collected through a questionnaire characterizing the subjects and questions related to the perception of professionals in the current period. The collected data will be transcribed into WordPad®, processed in the Interface de R pour lês Analyses Multidimensionnelles de Textes et de Questionnaires (IRAMUTEC)®, by Descending Hierarchical Classification. The classes obtained will be named based on the identification and analysis of textual domains and the interpretation of meanings, for each of the textual corpus. The originating units of significance will be analyzed by content analysis. The analyzes will be presented based on tables and figures, compared by their similarities and discussed according to the literature. This study has ethical authorization from the Ethics Committee of the Hospital for Craniofacial Anomalies (HRAC-USP), according to Opinion 6.644.378.