Prevalence of Covid-19 infection in the military firefighter training course
International Journal of Development Research
Prevalence of Covid-19 infection in the military firefighter training course
Received 20th August, 2021; Received in revised form 28th August, 2021; Accepted 14th September, 2021; Published online 30th September, 2021
Copyright © 2021, Mateus Campos Almeida Mendonça et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Professionals who work in the area of health and direct care to the community are at greater risk of infection due to occupational exposure to infected patients. Thus, the objective is to determine the prevalence of positive Covid-19 cases among the cadets of the military firefighters training course. This was a crosssectional study with 64 Age students from the Officer Training Course – Military Firefighter at the State University of Maranhão. Sociodemographic variables, prevalence of positive covid-19 cases and presence of post-infection clinical symptoms were measured. There was a high prevalence 68.8% (n=44) of positive cases of COVID-19 and the majority 82.8% (n=53) were male. Among the post-COVID-19 symptoms among the cadets who tested positive for the disease, most had neuropsychiatric symptoms such as anxiety 25% (n=11) and stress 9.1% (n=4) and headache 25% (n=11) between physical effects, among other symptoms associated with post infection by COVID-19. Thus, such data allows the development of prevention and control measures for this population, as well as others that present the same risk of exposure.
