Educating interns about the chest x-ray findings in Covid-19: A qualitative study

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Gaurav Aurora

Educating interns about the chest x-ray findings in Covid-19: A qualitative study

Keywords : Covid-19, Educating interns, radiography, chest x-ray


Abstract

The interns along with health care workers are regarded as the covid warriors. This pandemic is caused by a novel type of coronavirus named Covid-19 which was extracted from lower respiratory tract samples of several patients in December 2019 in Wuhan, China on March 11, 2020, The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global pandemic by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. There are many tests available for detection of covid infection such as RT-PCR, CT chest but Using CXR images has several advantages; they are cost-effective and abundantly available in the modern healthcare system, and radiography examination can be carried out quickly. The radiological findings of COVID 19 on chest xray are as follows: -Ground glass opacity,Peripheral, coarse, horizontal white lines, bands, or reticular changes which can be described, as linear opacities, Consolidation and rarely- nodular lung lesion, pleural effusion and pneumothorax. 100 interns were selected for the study. After approval of ethics committee, consent was taken from all the participants before starting the online survey. A predesigned and pretested questionnaire was used in this study. Total 12 questions were included in questionnaire, related to basic knowledge of chest x-ray findings of COVID-19. Then the participants were explained about the findings of chest xray of Covid-19 and earlier designed pretest questionnaire was given again to assess their knowledge. When association between pretest and post-test was analyzed, the question number 4 to 12 showed significant statistical association between their pre-test knowledge and interventional teaching with p value <0.05. While, as the answers for the first 3 questions were already known to maximum percent of interns, there found no association between intervention and pretest.Therefore this clearly states that the teaching program imparted significant knowledge among interns regarding chest xray findings in Covid-19..By educating interns about Covid-19 findings on Chest xray, we are actually educating the future medical practioner of the society and thereby spreading the awareness and how to diagnose Covid-19 cases by medical practioner other than radiologist.

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