Volume 21, Number 11—November 2015
Dispatch
Workplace Safety Concerns among Co-workers of Responder Returning from Ebola-Affected Country
Benjamin P. Chan
, Elizabeth R. Daly, and Elizabeth A. Talbot
, Elizabeth R. Daly, and Elizabeth A. Talbot
Table 2
Respondent comfort level with co-worker travel to an Ebola-affected country and co-worker contact with Ebola patients
| Scenario | No. paired responses, n = 178 | No. (%) respondents |
% Change (ratio) | p value* | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Travel with contact with Ebola patients | Travel with no contact with Ebola patients | ||||
| Uncomfortable with | |||||
| Co-worker return to work | 178 | 76 (42.7) | 32 (18.0) | --24.7 (2.4) | <0.001 |
| Walking in same hallway as co-worker | 177 | 57 (32.2) | 26 (14.7) | −17.5 (2.2) | <0.001 |
| Being in same room as co-worker for meeting | 176 | 65 (36.7) | 30 (17.1) | −19.6 (2.1) | <0.001 |
| Sitting in chair next to co-worker | 177 | 88 (49.7) | 63 (35.6) | −14.1 (1.4) | <0.001 |
| Standing in line next to co-worker | 177 | 78 (44.1) | 47 (26.6) | −17.5 (1.7) | <0.001 |
| Using same restroom as co-worker | 176 | 77 (43.8) | 40 (22.7) | −21.1 (1.9) | <0.001 |
| Shaking hands with co-worker | 176 | 85 (48.3) | 52 (29.6) | −18.7 (1.6) | <0.001 |
| Hugging co-worker | 175 | 87 (49.7) | 59 (33.7) | −16.0 (1.5) | <0.001 |
| Riding in co-worker's car | 177 | 81 (45.5) | 51 (28.8) | −16.7 (1.6) | <0.001 |
| Assisting co-worker if he/she fainted | 177 | 95 (53.7) | 62 (35.0) | −18.7 (1.5) | <0.001 |
| Eating homemade food made by co-worker |
176 |
95 (54.0) |
67 (37.9) |
−16.1 (1.4) |
<0.001 |
| Would consider not coming to work if co-worker returned | 178 | 37 (20.8) | 14 (7.9) | −12.9 (2.6) | <0.001 |
| Would not attend party at co-worker’s home |
176 |
125 (70.6) |
82 (46.9) |
−23.7 (1.5) |
<0.001 |
| *McNemar’s test for paired proportions. | |||||
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