NCT04635592

Serological Diagnostics of COVID-19 in Health Care Workers

Serological Diagnostics of COVID-19 and Risk Factors for Infection Among Different Groups of Health Care Workers at Surgical Division at Tertiary Hospital

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 300 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University Medical Centre Ljubljana · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

All health care workers at the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care at UMC Ljubljana will be tested for SARS-CoV2 with nasal swab test and blood withdrawal for SARS-CoV2 antibodies. At the same time a questionnaire with epidemiological anamnesis, risky contacts and the use of personal protective equipment will be fulfilled.

Detailed description

Health care workers at the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care at UMC Ljubljana are working with COVID-19 patients in intensive care units, operating theaters, wards and emergency department. In the care of those patients different workgroups are involved: anesthesiologists, anesthesia and ICU nurses and respiratory therapeuts.There is insufficient data on the seroprevalence in different workgroups, different areas of the hospital, insufficient data on connection between SARS-CoV2 nasal swabs and antibodies and the rate of asymptomatic infections. 300 hundred HCW will be tested for SARS-CoV2 with nasal swab test and blood withdrawal for SARS-CoV2 antibodies. At the same time a questionnaire with epidemiological anamnesis, risky contacts and the use of personal protective equipment will be filled.

Conditions

• SARS-CoV Infection

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	SARS-CoV2 nasal swab	SARS-CoV2 nasal swab and venous blood for SARS-CoV2 antibodies

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-11-01
• Primary completion: 2020-12-31
• Completion: 2021-01-31
• First posted: 2020-11-19
• Last updated: 2020-11-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Slovenia