Self-reported Occupational Risk for COVID-19 in Hospital Doctors from Black Asian & Minority Ethnic Communities in UK
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Vol. 6 No. 1 (2020)

Self-reported Occupational Risk for COVID-19 in Hospital Doctors from Black Asian & Minority Ethnic Communities in UK

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https://doi.org/10.38192/1.6.1.9
Published 2020-05-09
Sunil Daga PhD, MRCP, MBBS
BAPIO Institute for Health Research, Bedford, UK
Indranil Chakravorty MBBS PhD FRCP
BAPIO Institute for Health Research, Bedford, UK
JS Bamrah MD FRCPsych FIIOPM
British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin, Bedford, UK
Geeta Menon MBBS MD FRCOpth
BAPIO Institute for Health Research, Bedford, UK
Subodh Dave MRCPsych MMed
BAPIO Institute for Health Research, Bedford, UK
Subarna Chakravorty MBBS MRCPCH PhD FRCPath
BAPIO Institute for Health Research, Bedford, UK
Neeraj Bhala MBBS DPhil FRCPE FRCP
BAPIO Institute for Health Research, Bedford, UK
Ramesh Mehta OBE MD FRCPCH
British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin, Bedford, UK
Illustration by Tumpa Banerjee, MBBS, MRCP, MRCGP
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COVID-19, BAME, Healthcare workers, Personal Protective Equipment, Social distancing

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Daga, S., Chakravorty , I. ., Bamrah, J., Menon, G., Dave, S. ., Chakravorty , S. ., Bhala, N. . ., & Mehta, R. (2020). Self-reported Occupational Risk for COVID-19 in Hospital Doctors from Black Asian & Minority Ethnic Communities in UK. The Physician, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.38192/1.6.1.9
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Abstract

Emerging data from COVID-19 pandemic shows a trend for increased risk for healthcare workers in the UK, compared to other countries. In addition, there is a disproportionately high risk observed in healthcare workers from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic backgrounds. This high risk is independent of biological or demographic variables. This paper presents sub-analysis of a larger survey of healthcare workers, particularly describing possible occupational risk of COVID-19 in a subset of doctors in UK hospitals from a BAME background. The results show higher rates of inability to access personal protection or comply with social distancing. The inability to self-isolate was associated with a 1.7x higher risk of COVID-19. The results of this survey suggest further research is needed to explore and understand institutional factors that may explain excess risks to BAME hospital doctors.

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