RISK PERCEPTION VS COVID-19 IN HOSPITAL CENTERS IN SANTIAGO DE CUBA

Despite the actions carried out by government institutions and health department in Santiago de Cuba, there has been an increase in the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19, causing the need to increase hospital beds for isolation and treatment. of patients and contacts demanding a greater number of health and support workers for these services, among which an increase in cases has been observed and for this reason it was considered necessary to characterize the perception of risk about Covid-19 who have case contacts confirmed and health workers who work in these institutions, for which a qualitative study was designed in which 106 subjects participated, of them 70 case contacts and 36 health workers. The results showed that there is a contradiction between the perception of the subjects about the negativity - mortality of the disease and the actions to avoid getting infected, as well as the perception of risk is considered only in the beliefs of perceived susceptibility and the perceived benefits and not in the perceived barriers, functional self-efficacy and the signal for action, showing a low perception from the belief in health in these subjects.