id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-332083-135iic7m Xia, Wei The Physical and Psychological Effects of Personal Protective Equipment on Health Care Workers in Wuhan, China: A Cross-Sectional Survey Study 2020-09-29 .txt text/plain 4734 255 55 INTRODUCTION: The purpose of this study was to rapidly quantify the safety measures regarding donning and doffing personal protective equipment, complaints of discomfort caused by wearing personal protective equipment, and the psychological perceptions of health care workers in hospitals in Wuhan, China, responding to the outbreak. Detailed donning and doffing procedures are described in the Supplementary Figure The purpose of this study was to rapidly quantify the safety measures of donning and doffing PPE, complaints of discomfort caused by wearing PPE, and the psychological perceptions of HCWs in hospitals in Wuhan, China, responding to the COVID-19 outbreak. Because our participants were all HCWs in Wuhan hospitals, we divided their demographic information as follows: the demographic variables included sex (male or female); age (20-30 years, 30-40 years, 40-50 years, and >50 years); occupation (physician, nurse, pharmacist, medical technician, or other); workplace (a designated hospital for patients critically ill with severe COVID-19; an undesignated hospital for patients uninfected with COVID-19; and Fangcang Hospital for patients with mild symptoms of COVID-19); and department (general isolation ward, intensive care unit [ICU], emergency department for patients with fevers, and other). ./cache/cord-332083-135iic7m.txt ./txt/cord-332083-135iic7m.txt