How to handle the deceased body of COVID-19: an insight from Indonesian muslim burial handlers’ knowledge, perception, and practice
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Abstract
Introduction
Handling the remained body affected by COVID-19 in Indonesia is still an issue as it is done by community.
Aim
This study aims to explore the handler’s knowledge, perception, and practice in handling the remains.
Method
This study elaborates qualitative design in exploring the handler’s knowledge, perception, and practice in handling the remains dealing with universal precaution during the handling of the deceased body of COVID-19. The data is obtained through in-depth interview with guides.
Result
The majority of participants were acknowledged that the universal precaution is a precautionary conduct which remains general and nontechnical. Technicality on the universal precaution such as personal protective equipment and safety standards for infectious substance on the dead body are still incomprehensive. The perception of each handler of the body is still obscure. It was showed by cautious/apprehensive sense predominated the handlers in handling the dead body.
Conclusion
Improving the knowledge and strengthening the network of the handlers among the community play an important role in interrupting the chain of transmission of COVID-19 in the community.
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.08.03.20167593: (What is this?)
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Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement Consent: All informants voluntarily agreed to participate in this study after obtaining an explanation of the study and agreed to the given consent form. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable More than half of the participants were male (4 out of 6) (table 1). Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We …SciScore for 10.1101/2020.08.03.20167593: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement Consent: All informants voluntarily agreed to participate in this study after obtaining an explanation of the study and agreed to the given consent form. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable More than half of the participants were male (4 out of 6) (table 1). Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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- No protocol registration statement was detected.
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