在2019年冠状病毒病(COVID-19)大流行期间使用口罩已在全球范围内得到广泛推荐和授权。然而,缺乏对使用口罩对健康的潜在不利影响的全面研究。本研究旨在调查和评估使用外科口罩对本科生和副学士学位学生经科学证明的心肺功能的负面影响。以及它对冠状动脉恐惧症的影响。共有145名大学生志愿者(49名男性,96名女性,平均年龄为20岁)被纳入研究,其中包括两个120分钟的会议。血氧饱和度,心率,在每次治疗前和治疗后立即评估血压.冠状病毒-19恐惧症量表用于测量COVID-19恐惧症的水平。虽然氧饱和度水平随时间降低,血压,在1分钟和120分钟评估生命体征时测量心率,没有一个值超出参考范围.该研究还调查了使用口罩对包括头痛在内的各种症状的影响,视力障碍,面部不适,耳痛,呼吸急促,和焦虑。与基线相比,在第60分钟和第120分钟观察到所有这些症状的发生显著增加。根据平均总分,参与研究的参与者表现出中等水平的COVID-19恐惧症。此外,在心理和社会子维度上记录了高分,而经济和心身子维度得分较低。在后COVID-19归一化阶段,在120分钟的过程中使用外科口罩被发现对心肺功能没有显著影响,但中度影响了冠状动脉恐惧症评分。
Mask use during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been widely recommended and mandated worldwide. However, there is a lack of comprehensive research on the potential adverse health effects of mask usage. This
study aimed to investigate and evaluate the negative effects of surgical mask use on scientifically proven cardiopulmonary functions in undergraduate and associate degree students, as well as its impact on coronaphobia. A total of 145 volunteer university students (49 males, 96 females, with a mean age of 20 years) were enrolled in the
study, which consisted of two 120-minute sessions. Blood oxygen saturation, heart rate, and blood pressure were assessed before and immediately after each session. The Coronavirus-19 Phobia Scale was utilized to measure levels of COVID-19 phobia. While a time-dependent decrease in oxygen saturation level, blood pressure, and heart rate was measured when vital signs were evaluated at 1 and 120 minutes, none of the values fell outside the reference range. The
study also investigated the effects of mask use on various symptoms including headaches, visual impairment, facial discomfort, earaches, shortness of breath, and anxiety. Significantly increased occurrences of all these symptoms were observed at the 60th and 120th minute compared with the baseline. The participants enrolled in the
study demonstrated a moderate level of COVID-19 phobia based on the mean total score. Furthermore, high scores were recorded in the psychological and social sub-dimensions, while lower scores were recorded in the economic and psychosomatic sub-dimensions. In the post-COVID-19 normalization phase, the use of a surgical mask during a 120-minute course was found to have no significant impact on cardiopulmonary functions, but moderately affected coronaphobia scores.