Surveys and Proposals of the Infectious Disease Home Isolation through Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Transmission

Song Yi An; Woong Jung; Chang Min Lee; Sung Hyuk Park; Hyun Kyung Park; Myung Chun Kim

doi:10.14192/kjhaicp.2018.23.2.72

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An, Jung, Lee, Park, Park, and Kim: Surveys and Proposals of the Infectious Disease Home Isolation through Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Transmission

Original Article

Korean Journal of Healthcare-Associated Infection Control and Prevention 2018; 23(2): 72-79.

Published online: 27 December 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14192/kjhaicp.2018.23.2.72

Surveys and Proposals of the Infectious Disease Home Isolation through Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Transmission

Song Yi An, Woong Jung, Chang Min Lee, Sung Hyuk Park, Hyun Kyung Park, Myung Chun Kim

Department of Emergency Medicine, Kyung Hee University Hospital at Kangdong, Seoul, Korea.

Correspondence to: Woong Jung, Department of Emergency Medicine, Kyung Hee University Hospital at Kangdong, 892 Dongnam-ro, Gangdong-gu, Seoul 05278, Korea. Tel: 02-440-7788, Fax: 02-440-7799, ondali77@khu.ac.kr

Received 12 September 2018 Revised 18 October 2018 Accepted 18 October 2018

Korean Society for Healthcare-Associated Infection Control and Prevention

Abstract

Background

The purpose of this study was to identify the degree of home isolation and to determine what is needed for an effective home isolation through experience with home isolation that has been found to be in close contact persons with MERS-confirmed patient.

Methods

We conducted a questionnaire survey of employees at a university hospital in Seoul, Korea, which were classified as close contact with the MERS patient who visited the emergency room in June 2015. The questionnaire items were prepared by referring to the MERS response guideline, 3-3 edition.

Results

There were 81respondents in total. At the time of home isolation notification, 74 (91.4%) were guided by the instructions. At the time of home isolation notification, 42 (51.9%) persons were out of the home. When they comed back home, 7 (16.7%) persons were ambulanced-supported, but 14 (33.3%) used public transportation. the performance of “keeping inside home” was 4.51 out of 5, and the perfomance of “twice daily monitoring” was 3.68 out of 5.

Conclusion

As the result of survey suggests, overall isolation practices were satisfactory, but there were difficulties in home isolation practices such as the supply of daily necessities, monitoring of symptom manifestations, and worries about family infections. Therefore, it is advisable to fix the home isolation problems in tandem with the isolation of facilities.

Keywords: Home isolation, MERS, Survey

Figures and Tables

Table 1

General characteristics of respondents

Table 2

Evaluation before self isolation

Table 3

Notification of home isolation

^*Transport to home (N=42, hospital+Outside).

Table 4

Circumstances of home isolation

^*How to isolation in the house? (N=55, Couple household+More than 3 people+Others).

Table 5

Performance of guidelines

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