Environmental and Occupational Health Practice
Online ISSN : 2434-4931
Field Studies
What types of information about the COVID-19 pandemic do occupational physicians find useful?: a survey
Juri Matsuoka Rina MinoharaYuko FuruyaKota FukaiHaruna HirosatoNaoto ItoKiminori OdagamiTomohisa NagataMasako NagataYuichi KobayashiKoji Mori
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2021 Volume 3 Issue 1 Article ID: 2021-0001-FS

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Objectives: To identify what types of information were useful and/or difficult to obtain for occupational physicians during the COVID-19 epidemic, and how information should be provided to help occupational physicians in the event of future outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases. Methods: The list was developed by categorizing information about COVID-19 delivered by researchers to a group of occupational physicians after the COVID-19 outbreak. We created a survey and asked the group about the usefulness and ease of obtaining each type of information. Results: In total, 79.1–100% of the occupational physicians said that each type of information was “Useful”. Information on the nature of the virus; clinical course, testing, and treatment; infection prevention measures; regulations in Japan; immigration restrictions in Japan; and guidelines were all considered useful by more than 95%, as was information about the introduction of information aggregation websites by public institutions, academic societies, experts, and others, and sharing of case studies by information distribution group members. These last two items also had a high percentage of respondents who said that they “only obtained the information because it was distributed this way”. Conclusions: Constructing a system for automatic distribution of information that is useful to occupational physicians and difficult to obtain elsewhere may make it easier for occupational physicians to respond more smoothly to emerging infectious disease outbreaks within a company.

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