Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34770004›Full record

ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021

Prevalence and Risk Factors of Occupational Health Hazards among Health Care Workers of Northern Saudi Arabia: A Multicenter Study.

Ashokkumar Thirunavukkarasu, Khaloud Amash Hossin Alrawaili, Ahmad Homoud Al-Hazmi, Umar Farooq Dar, Bashayer ALruwaili, Ayesha Mallick, Farooq Ahmed Wani, Amnah Ibrahim E Alsirhani

Abstract readMulticenter Study
In one paragraph

Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Review
  4. Article
  5. Prevention of New-Onset Heart Failure in Atrial Fibrillation: The Role of Pharmacological Management.American journal of cardiovascular drugs : drugs, devices, and other interventions · 2025
    Review
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. Article
  11. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Ashokkumar ThirunavukkarasuDepartment of Community and Family Medicine, College of Medicine, Jouf University, Sakaka 72388, Saudi Arabia.
Khaloud Amash Hossin AlrawailiDepartment of Public Health, Tarif Al-Salhiya Health Center, Ministry of Health, Turaif 3753, Saudi Arabia.
Ahmad Homoud Al-HazmiDepartment of Community and Family Medicine, College of Medicine, Jouf University, Sakaka 72388, Saudi Arabia.
Umar Farooq DarDepartment of Community and Family Medicine, College of Medicine, Jouf University, Sakaka 72388, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-2149-2190
Bashayer ALruwailiDepartment of Community and Family Medicine, College of Medicine, Jouf University, Sakaka 72388, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-2034-7709
Ayesha MallickDepartment of Community and Family Medicine, College of Medicine, Jouf University, Sakaka 72388, Saudi Arabia.
Farooq Ahmed WaniDepartment of Pathology, College of Medicine, Jouf University, Sakaka 72388, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-8614-3293
Amnah Ibrahim E AlsirhaniDepartment of Family medicine, Ministry of Health, Tabuk Region, Tabuk City 47512, Saudi Arabia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Health care workers (HCWs) working in different health care facilities are exposed to many hazards, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. This questionnaire-based cross-sectional study aimed to assess the prevalence, pattern, and risk factors of occupational health hazards faced by 438 randomly selected HCWs from northern Saudi Arabia. The HCWs are commonly exposed to needle stick injuries (34.5%) under the biological hazards category; and work-related stress (69.6%) under the non-biological hazards categories. The significant associated factors were work setting (ref: Primary Health Center: Adjusted OR (AOR) = 2.81, 95%CI = 1.21-4.59,

Indexed as

COVID-19Occupational HealthCross-Sectional StudiesHealth PersonnelHumansPandemicsPrevalenceRisk FactorsSARS-CoV-2Saudi Arabiahealth care workersoccupational health hazardsrisk factorswork-related stress

Identifiers

PMID34770004
PMCPMC8583691

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.