Nonpharmaceutical interventions reduce the incidence and mortality of COVID-19: A study based on the survey from the International COVID-19 Research Network (ICRN).
Journal: Journal of medical virology
Volume: 95
Issue: 2
Year of Publication: 2023
Affiliated Institutions: Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Department of Preventive Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Department of Precision Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Suwon, Republic of Korea. Center for Digital Health, Medical Science Research Institute, Kyung Hee University Medical Center, Kyung Hee University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Quds University, East Jerusalem, Palestine. Urology Institute, University Hospitals Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America. University of Nouakchott Al Aasriya & The Mauritanian Association for Scientific Research Development (AMDRS), Nouakchott, Mauritania. Yemen Field Epidemiology Training Program, Yemen. Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Jabriya, Kuwait. Burjeel Cancer Institute, Burjeel Medical City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. School of Medicine, The Maldives National University, Male, Maldives. University of Sulaimani College of Medicine, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. Department of Infectious Diseases, Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Zealand University Hospital Roskilde, Roskilde, Denmark. European Centre for Disaster Medicine, Council of Europe (CEMEC), Strasbourg, France. Department of Pediatrics, Immunology, Infectious and Rare Diseases, International European University, Kyiv, Ukraine. John F. Kennedy Medical Center, Edison, New Jersey, United States of America. School of Medicine, University of Juba, Juba, South Sudan. Department of Head and Neck and Thoracic Cancers, Division of Radiation Oncology, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore, Singapore. Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America. Department of Pathology, University of Lomé, Lome, Togo. Tuberculosis Research and Prevention Center, Yerevan, Armenia. Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, Pain and Rehabilitation Centre, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden. rd Department of Surgery, st Medical Faculty of Charles University, Motol University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic. Medical Research Foundation of Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Respiratory and Critical Care Unit, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy. First Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University-Varna, Varna, Bulgaria. American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon. Department of Microbiology, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Internal Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan. Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland - Bahrain, Al Sayh, Bahrain. National Institute of Health, Islamabad, Pakistan. Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan. Research and Development Unit, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, CIBERSAM, ISCIII, Dr. Antoni Pujadas, Barcelona, Spain. Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia. Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Department of Pediatrics, Jessenius Faculty of Medicine in Martin, University Teaching Hospital in Martin, Comenius University in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia. National University of Ireland, Galway, Republic of Ireland. Zambia National Public Health Institute, Lusaka, Zambia. Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia. Department of Public Health, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan. Department of Clinical Medicine, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore. Clinical Hospital Centre Split, University Department of Health Studies, University of Split, Croatia. Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Therapy and Acute Intoxications, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland. Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Deu, ICREA, CIBERSAM, ISCIII, Barcelona, Spain. Public Health Unit, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Central University, Accra, Ghana. College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone. Department of Psychiatry, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju-si, Gangwon-do, Republic of Korea. Department of Nephrology, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju-si, Gangwon-do, Republic of Korea. National Public Health Institute of Cape Verde, Praia, Santiago Island, Cape Verde. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. National Institute of Neurology. Family Medicine, Global and Public Health Unit, University of Zimbabwe Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Harare, Zimbabwe. Director Research and Innovation Center, King Saud Medical City, Ministry of Health & College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Tropical Cardiology, Central University of Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia. St. Parascheva Infectious Disease Hospital, Iasi, Romania. Department of Gynecologic Surgery & Oncology, Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel. Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran, Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia, Mexico City, Mexico. IFORD-University of Yaoundé II, Yaoundé, Cameroon. Molecular Biology Laboratory, Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, Muntinlupa City, Philippines. Asfendiyarov Kazakh National Medical University, Almaty, Kazakhstan. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America. Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland. Department of Community Medicine, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria. General Directorate of Public Health, Ministry of Health of Turkey, Adnan Saygun St, Çankaya, Ankara, Turkey. Department of Medicine, University of Cyprus Medical School, Nicosia, Cyprus. Cardiology Division, Clínica Olivos, Buenos Aires, Argentina. School of Global Health and Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Clinical Trials New Zealand, Waikato Hospital Campus, Hamilton, New Zealand. Clinical Centre of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro. MRC Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Fajara, Gambia. Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Americas - Institución Universitaria Visión de las Américas, Pereira, Colombia. Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Medicine of Tirana, Albania. Afghanistan National Public Health Institute (ANPHI), Kabul, Afghanistan. Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal. RIMU/Research Institute of Medical University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Pediatrics and Pediatric Nephrology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. Geriatrics and Long Term Care Department, Rumailah Hospital, Doha, Qatar. Department of Anesthesiology, Amsterdam UMC location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands. National Institute of Public Health, Maribor, Slovenia. Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital and Research Institute, Mumbai, India. School of Health Sciences, The University of Georgia, Georgia. Department of Psychiatry, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Laboratory of Microorganisms and Actives Biomolecules, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, University Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia. Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of Botswana, Faculty of Medicine, Gaborone, Botswana. National University of Asunción, School of Medical Sciences, San Lorenzo, Paraguay. Universidad Cientifica del Sur, Lima, Peru. Department of Emergency Medicine, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece. Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences (MNUMS), Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal. Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Department of Basic Sciences, University of Kinshasa Faculty of Medicine, Laboratory of Physiology, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Department of Dermatology and Allergology, Städtisches Klinikum Dresden - Academic Teaching Hospital, Dresden, Germany. Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Macau, China. Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Research, Cancer Care Alberta, Alberta Health Services, School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada. School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom. Academy of Medical Science of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Department of Pediatrics, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Centre for Health Performance and Wellbeing, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Abstract summary
The recently emerged novel coronavirus, "severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2)," caused a highly contagious disease called coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). It has severely damaged the world's most developed countries and has turned into a major threat for low- and middle-income countries. Since its emergence in late 2019, medical interventions have been substantial, and most countries relied on public health measures collectively known as nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs). We aimed to centralize the accumulative knowledge of NPIs against COVID-19 for each country under one worldwide consortium. International COVID-19 Research Network collaborators developed a cross-sectional online survey to assess the implications of NPIs and sanitary supply on the incidence and mortality of COVID-19. The survey was conducted between January 1 and February 1, 2021, and participants from 92 countries/territories completed it. The association between NPIs, sanitation supplies, and incidence and mortality were examined by multivariate regression, with the log-transformed value of population as an offset value. The majority of countries/territories applied several preventive strategies, including social distancing (100.0%), quarantine (100.0%), isolation (98.9%), and school closure (97.8%). Individual-level preventive measures such as personal hygiene (100.0%) and wearing facial masks (94.6% at hospitals; 93.5% at mass transportation; 91.3% in mass gathering facilities) were also frequently applied. Quarantine at a designated place was negatively associated with incidence and mortality compared to home quarantine. Isolation at a designated place was also associated with reduced mortality compared to home isolation. Recommendations to use sanitizer for personal hygiene reduced incidence compared to the recommendation to use soap. Deprivation of masks was associated with increased incidence. Higher incidence and mortality were found in countries/territories with higher economic levels. Mask deprivation was pervasive regardless of economic level. NPIs against COVID-19 such as using sanitizer, quarantine, and isolation can decrease the incidence and mortality of COVID-19.Authors & Co-authors: Park Hong Kim Lee Yon Jung Abdeen Ghayda Ahmed Serouri Al-Herz Al-Shamsi Ali Ali Baatarkhuu Nielsen Bernini-Carri Bondarenko Cassell Cham Chua Dadabhai Darre Davtyan Dragioti East Edwards Ferioli Georgiev Ghandour Harapan Hsueh Mallah Ikram Inoue Jacob Janković Jayarajah Jesenak Kakodkar Kapata Kebede Khader Kifle Koh Maleš Kotfis Koyanagi Kretchy Lakoh Lee Lee Mendonça Ling Llibre-Guerra Machida Makurumidze Memish Mendoza Moiseev Nadasdy Nahshon Ñamendys-Silva Yongsi Nicolasora Nugmanova Oh Oksanen Owopetu Ozguler Parperis Perez Pongpirul Rademaker Radojevic Roca Rodriguez-Morales Roshi Saeed Sah Sakakushev Sallam Sathian Schober Ali Simonović Singhal Skhvitaridze Solmi Subbaram Tizaoui Tlhakanelo Torales Torres-Roman Tsartsalis Tsolmon Vieira Rosa Wanghi Wollina Xu Yang Zia Zildzic Il Shin Smith
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Citations : Guan W, Ni Z, Hu Y, et al. Clinical characteristics of coronavirus disease 2019 in China. N Engl J Med. 2020;382(18):1708-1720.Authors : 106
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Doi : 10.1002/jmv.28354SSN : 1096-9071