Impacts of COVID-19 on Health Care Workers: Infection Prevention and Control, 2020 [Canada]

The Impacts of COVID-19 on Health Care Workers: Infection Prevention and Control (ICHCWIPC) is a crowdsource initiative that collected information related to job type and setting, training and information on personal protective equipment (PPE) and infection prevention and control (IPC) practices and protocols, use and access to PPE, and personal health. It also includes general demographic questions. In the context of this product, the term crowdsourcing refers to the process of collecting information via an online questionnaire. Open advertising was used to obtain participants who chose to self-select by completing the questionnaire. As such, the crowdsourcing data was collected through a completely non-probabilistic approach which does not involve a random selection of participants like other traditional Statistics Canada surveys. Therefore, results pertain only to the participants and cannot be used to draw conclusions about the larger population of health care workers and those working in a health care setting. The targeted participants to this crowdsource initiative were health care workers and those working in a health care setting living in the ten provinces and three territories. This includes people who provided health care services directly to individuals (e.g. physicians, nurses, massage therapists, dentists, dietitians), provided technical support to medical staff (e.g. receptionists, technicians), or who provided support services in a health care setting (e.g. cleaning and food services staff, security).