Abstract

ARIAS-URIBE, José Iván. Impact of the introduction of the mask against COVID-19: a narrative review. Rev. salud pública [online]. 2021, vol.23, n.3, pp.1-.  Epub Jan 19, 2022. ISSN 0124-0064.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rsap.v23n3.92258.

The objective of this work was to identify the impact of the introduction of the mask against COVID-19. A review of the literature available in a specialized database, PubMed, was carried out, which was adjusted to the guidelines framed in the PRISMA methodology (1). Search equations were defined under the terms MeSH: human (MeSH D006801), COVID-19 (MeSH D000086382), masks (MeSH D008397), SARS-CoV-2 (MeSH D000086402) and equipment design (MeSH D004867), using the Boolean AND character. With these equations, articles published in 2020 were searched, recovering 676 records in total, choo-sing 82 that address the topic of interest and including in the final review 49 articles that met all the defined inclusion and exclusion criteria. The results suggest that the introduction of masks had a positive impact on reducing the risk of COVID-19 and the inappropriate use of masks is a risk factor.

Keywords : Masks; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; N95 respirators (source: MeSH, NLM).

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