Table 2 Nursing home and home healthcare employees specific characteristics

Job function

 Nurse, care

92 (71.9%)

155 (57.4%)

 Housekeeping, kitchen and technical services

9 (7.0%)

78 (28.9%)

 Administration

16 (12.5%)

24 (8.9%)

 Other

11 (8.6%)

13 (4.8%)

Work status

 Part-time (< 80%)

73 (55.7%)

70 (23.6%)

 Full-time (80–100%)

58 (44.3%)

227 (76.4%)

Direct contact with residents/clients at work

 To a great extent or always

16 (12.5%)

60 (22.1%)

 Occasionally

94 (73.4%)

204 (75.3%)

 None or next to none

18 (14.1%)

7 (2.6%)

Unprotected close contact to residents/clients during pandemic

 Yes, any

71 (55.5%)

133 (49.8%)

 No, none

57 (44.5%)

134 (50.2%)

Care of SARS-CoV-2 positive residents/clients

 Yes, currently

0 (0.0%)

8 (3.0%)

 Yes, in the past

13 (10.2%)

84 (31.3%)

 No or don’t know

115 (89.8%)

176 (65.7%)

Self-assessed knowledge (1 = not at all; 10 = fully agree), mean (sd)

 Knowing the transmission routes of SARS-CoV-2

9.0 (12.4)

9.0 (13.7)

 Knowing how to use protective materials for work

9.5 (7.1)

9.6 (7.9)

 Knowing how to recognize Covid-19 symptoms and suspicious cases

9.0 (12.9)

9.0 (13.6)

 Knowing the steps to take if a resident/client has Covid-19

9.1 (14.3)

9.2 (14.6)

Assessment of confidence, risk perception, burden (1 = not at all; 10 = fully confident/likely/serious/burdensome), mean (sd)

 Confidence to protect oneself at work from SARS-CoV-2 infection

7.9 (18.2)

7.8 (19.6)

 Confidence to protect residents/clients from SARS-CoV-2 infection

7.8 (18.6)

7.5 (22.0)

 Likelihood of contracting the coronavirus at work

4.3 (29.0)

4.4 (26.0)

 Likelihood of infecting a resident with the coronavirus

5.4 (25.6)

 Extent of seriousness of infection with the coronavirus personally

4.2 (26.5)

4.7 (26.8)

 Burden of protective measures at work for oneself

5.7 (30.4)

 Concern of persons in private environment that you work in the health sector

5.1 (32.4)

4.8 (31.0)