Effects of The Long-Time Wearing of Gloves by Health Care Workers Managing Covid-19 Assessed by Electrodermal Activity: A Pilot Study

Continues wearing gloves is a crucial problem among health care workers treating patients with coronavirus (COVID-19) infection that may cause skin complications. In the present study, the skin conductance (SC), skin potential (SP) and skin susceptance (SS) were used to identify the effects of long-...

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Autores principales:	Haval Y. Yacoob Aldosky, Dindar S. Bari, Ørjan Grøttem Martinsen
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Publicado:	International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) 2021
Materias:	COVID-19 Electrodermal Activity Health care workers Wearing gloves Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics R858-859.7
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/f4df0aeae1a049f29568ddd4a7aa95bb
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:f4df0aeae1a049f29568ddd4a7aa95bb2021-11-30T07:59:37ZEffects of The Long-Time Wearing of Gloves by Health Care Workers Managing Covid-19 Assessed by Electrodermal Activity: A Pilot Study10.3991/ijoe.v17i12.234392626-8493https://doaj.org/article/f4df0aeae1a049f29568ddd4a7aa95bb2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.online-journals.org/index.php/i-joe/article/view/23439https://doaj.org/toc/2626-8493Continues wearing gloves is a crucial problem among health care workers treating patients with coronavirus (COVID-19) infection that may cause skin complications. In the present study, the skin conductance (SC), skin potential (SP) and skin susceptance (SS) were used to identify the effects of long-term wearing gloves among health care workers managing COVID-19. The experimental procedure was repeated 30 times on three subjects recruited as volunteers to wear gloves for 4 hours. The baseline of parameters SC, SP, and SS were recorded at normal conditions without wearing the glove at zero time (To). The parameters were again recorded in the cases of glove-wearing with and without zinc oxide ointment (ZnO) for the same period. Noticeable differences were found in each of SC, SP and SS for subjects who wore gloves when compared to the baseline for 4 h. Results also showed significant differences in each of SP and SS during the same period with applying ZnO comparing to wearing gloves without applying ZnO. The results show that skin hydration is significantly improved by using ZnO. However, changing gloves at least every four hours of continuous wearing is recommended. Haval Y. Yacoob AldoskyDindar S. BariØrjan Grøttem MartinsenInternational Association of Online Engineering (IAOE)articleCOVID-19Electrodermal ActivityHealth care workersWearing glovesComputer applications to medicine. Medical informaticsR858-859.7ENInternational Journal of Online and Biomedical Engineering, Vol 17, Iss 12 (2021)
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topic	COVID-19 Electrodermal Activity Health care workers Wearing gloves Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics R858-859.7
spellingShingle	COVID-19 Electrodermal Activity Health care workers Wearing gloves Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics R858-859.7 Haval Y. Yacoob Aldosky Dindar S. Bari Ørjan Grøttem Martinsen Effects of The Long-Time Wearing of Gloves by Health Care Workers Managing Covid-19 Assessed by Electrodermal Activity: A Pilot Study
description	Continues wearing gloves is a crucial problem among health care workers treating patients with coronavirus (COVID-19) infection that may cause skin complications. In the present study, the skin conductance (SC), skin potential (SP) and skin susceptance (SS) were used to identify the effects of long-term wearing gloves among health care workers managing COVID-19. The experimental procedure was repeated 30 times on three subjects recruited as volunteers to wear gloves for 4 hours. The baseline of parameters SC, SP, and SS were recorded at normal conditions without wearing the glove at zero time (To). The parameters were again recorded in the cases of glove-wearing with and without zinc oxide ointment (ZnO) for the same period. Noticeable differences were found in each of SC, SP and SS for subjects who wore gloves when compared to the baseline for 4 h. Results also showed significant differences in each of SP and SS during the same period with applying ZnO comparing to wearing gloves without applying ZnO. The results show that skin hydration is significantly improved by using ZnO. However, changing gloves at least every four hours of continuous wearing is recommended.
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author	Haval Y. Yacoob Aldosky Dindar S. Bari Ørjan Grøttem Martinsen
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title	Effects of The Long-Time Wearing of Gloves by Health Care Workers Managing Covid-19 Assessed by Electrodermal Activity: A Pilot Study
title_short	Effects of The Long-Time Wearing of Gloves by Health Care Workers Managing Covid-19 Assessed by Electrodermal Activity: A Pilot Study
title_full	Effects of The Long-Time Wearing of Gloves by Health Care Workers Managing Covid-19 Assessed by Electrodermal Activity: A Pilot Study
title_fullStr	Effects of The Long-Time Wearing of Gloves by Health Care Workers Managing Covid-19 Assessed by Electrodermal Activity: A Pilot Study
title_full_unstemmed	Effects of The Long-Time Wearing of Gloves by Health Care Workers Managing Covid-19 Assessed by Electrodermal Activity: A Pilot Study
title_sort	effects of the long-time wearing of gloves by health care workers managing covid-19 assessed by electrodermal activity: a pilot study
publisher	International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE)
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/f4df0aeae1a049f29568ddd4a7aa95bb
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Effects of The Long-Time Wearing of Gloves by Health Care Workers Managing Covid-19 Assessed by Electrodermal Activity: A Pilot Study

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