Association of healthcare worker behaviors with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) risk during four pandemic periods and characteristics associated with high-risk behaviors

Emily R Egbert; Shaoming Xiao; Erica Prochaska; S Omar Ali; Elizabeth Colantuoni; Avi Gadala; Danielle Koontz; Diana Zhong; Christina M Schumacher; Anna C Sick-Samuels; Amanda K Debes; Aaron M Milstone

doi:10.1017/ash.2022.371

Association of healthcare worker behaviors with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) risk during four pandemic periods and characteristics associated with high-risk behaviors

Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2023 Jan 17;3(1):e16. doi: 10.1017/ash.2022.371. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
² Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
³ Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁴ Johns Hopkins Health System, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁵ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁶ Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

In a large healthcare worker cohort, we quantified the association between behaviors and risk of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) during different pandemic phases, adjusting for prior infection and vaccination. Individual characteristics, including personal concerns, were associated with these behaviors. Public health messaging should target high-risk populations and behaviors as the pandemic evolves.

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