Students from Manzanillo in the prevention of COVID-19

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Disease Prevention, Primary Prevention, Preventive Health Services, Coronavirus Infections, Sepsis, Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome

Abstract

Introduction: Students constitute a bulwark in the work of active COVID-19 screening, developing actions for the prevention of the disease.

Aim: to characterize the actions carried out by students during COVID-19 screening at the René Vallejo Ortiz Health Center in the municipality of Manzanillo, from March 18 to May 31, 2020.

Method: an Observational-Descriptive-Cross-sectional study was carried out. The universe consisted of 229 students, for which a non-probabilistic sampling was used, in addition to complying with the inclusion criteria stated for the study. Variables studied were: career, academic year, evaluation of research activities, and preventive actions. Data was processed according to descriptive statistics.

Results: it was found a predominance of students of Medicine (93.4%), the fifth year reported the highest percentage (26.6%). The majority of evaluations were excellent in the activities carried out (79 %), the whole population was screened without cases of COVID-19 and prevention actions for the disease were provided.

Conclusions: the participation of students in the screening allowed access to all patients, screening them daily to determine respiratory diseases and carry out COVID-19 preventive actions.

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2021-01-22

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García Proenza GA, Prieto Tabernilla D de la C, Rodríguez Santiesteban CI, Montoya Vázquez A, González De Sosa J, Pérez Gutiérrez M. Students from Manzanillo in the prevention of COVID-19. Revdosdic [Internet]. 2021 Jan. 22 [cited 2025 Apr. 19];3(4):e104. Available from: https://revdosdic.sld.cu/index.php/revdosdic/article/view/104

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Vol. 3 No. 4 (2020): OCTOBER - DECEMBER

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