Dataset on potential risk factors to COVID19 disease among Health Workers in Kenya

Occupational characteristics, as well as personal and health systems characteristics of the health workers, were hypothesized to be associated with an increased risk of COVID-19 disease within the Kenyan tertiary-level hospital. Therefore, data collection was done using a researcher-administered and literature-based questionnaire via phone interviews on self-reported occupational and personal characteristics of health workers who worked in Kenyatta National Hospital between November 2021 to December 2021. The responses in the dataset therefore were treated as potential explanatory exposure variables for the study while the COVID-19 status was the study outcome. The participants consented to participation and their consent was documented before questionnaire administration. The collection of the data was approved by the Kenyatta National Hospital-University of Nairobi Ethics Review Committee(P462/06/2021), permission to conduct the study was also given by the administration of Kenyatta National Hospital and the study licence was also given by the National Commission For Science, Technology and Innovation for Kenya. The participants' identifier information was removed and de-identified, first, by anonymizing the questionnaire responses, second, the contact information database used during phone interviews was strictly kept confidential, restricted and password-protected and used for the purpose of this study only.
The dataset was then cleaned in Ms EXCEL to remove obvious errors and exported into R statistical software for analysis. Missingness of data was acknowledged prior to analysis. Aggregate variables of interest were derived based on the primary variables and multiple imputation of the dataset was applied to address missing data bias.
This data was analysed by regression methods and future researchers can apply similar methods to prove or disapprove their hypotheses based on the dataset.