Investigating Awareness of Preventive Measures and Preventive Practices of Covid-19 Preventive Measures among Adekunle Ajasin University Students (original) (raw)
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ADESH UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES AND RESEARCH, 2022
A novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak was first identified in Wuhan City, Hubei Province China, in December 2019, which was declared as pandemic virus by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020. COVID-19 is infectious disease and almost lead to acute respiratory distress syndrome. [1] The virus pandemic is a big problem for humanity health and can lead to death in special people with background diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and diabetes mellitus. [2] COVID-19 is defined as an illness caused by a novel coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2; formerly called 2019-nCoV). The infectious start from the common cold to more serious diseases, like Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. [3] ABSTRACT Objectives: The objective of the study was to assess the knowledge regarding COVID-19 among Students of Baptist High School; to assess the practices towards prevention of COVID-19 among Students of Baptist High School; and to find out the statistical significance between their level of knowledge regarding COVID-19 with their selected socio-demographic variables. Material and Methods: The research design used for the study was descriptive survey design; convenient sampling technique was used to select 50 Students of Baptist High School Lafia, Nigeria. Data were collected using self-structured questionnaire to assess the knowledge and practices toward prevention of COVID-19 among Students of Baptist High School Lafia, Nigeria. The data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics with the aid of IBM SPSS Statistics for version 23.0. Results: The results showed that the age range of the majority of the respondents is between 12-14 years and 15-17 years accounted for 18 (36%), out of 50 (100%) respondent majority 45 (90.0%) had adequate knowledge, 4 (8.0%) had moderate knowledge, but only 1 (2.0%) had inadequate knowledge, therefore, H1:1 Hypothesis was accepted while H0:1 Hypothesis was rejected; 23 (46.0%) of the respondent had high level of practices towards prevention of COVID-19, but majority 27 (54.0%) had low level of practices towards prevention of COVID-19. Hence, the H0:2 Hypothesis was accepted while H1:2 Hypothesis was rejected. There was statistically significant between their level of knowledge with their selected socio-demographic variables such as family history of COVID-19, yes (P = 0.089), no (0.000). Therefore, the H1:3 Hypothesis was accepted while H0:3 Hypothesis was rejected. Conclusion: Recommendation was given to conduct a similar study in different setting using large sample so that to generalize the findings.
BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a global public health problem and has evolved to become a pandemic crisis around the world, which is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome, coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). In response to this serious situation, COVID-19 was declared as a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization (WHO) on January 30 and called for collaborative efforts of all countries to prevent the rapid spread of COVID-19.Somaliland reported the territory's first two cases of coronavirus on TuesdayMar 31, 2020. Health officials in the capital, Hargeisa, said samples taken from two individuals-a local man who visited Britain and a Chinese man-had tested positive for COVID-19. METHOD:A cross-sectional online survey was conducted fromMay to July 2020 among 270 Participants University of Hargeisa students using the Google form platform. Considering the Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice towards Prevention COVID-19 pandemic situation, we collect data using popular social media networks (i.e., Facebook, WhatsApp). P value analyses were used to explore the collected data on KAPand sociodemographic factors. RESULT: The level of knowledge, attitude and Practice towards Prevention COVID-19 Outbreak among university of Hargeisa students was goodAll students they have adequate knowledge that 100% they heard a disease termed Coronavirus, also 97.8% they respond that the cause of Coronavirus is virus and 90.4% of respond that Direct transmission during coughing, Touching surfaces contaminated with the virus, Consuming milk and meat of infected animals All of the above are cause of disease and 98.9% respond that High temperature,Cough sore throat blocked nose and Difficulty of breathingAll of above are the symptoms of Coronavirus. Respondents were in a positive attitude and the survey revealed that 91.9% of participants agree that the Coronavirus disease is dangerous, and 94.4% had more frequent practices such as washing hands often, Avoiding touching the eyes, nose and mouth, throwing the tissues in the trash after use, using masking to cover my nose in crowded places, All of the above regarding COVID-19 prevention. The p value is constant because all students they have adequate knowledge of coronavirus as its pandemic disease. Conclusion: students have adequate knowledge, attitude and Practice (KAP) towards Prevention COVID-19 Outbreak Thus, there is a need for public health educational interventions andalso government awareness programs such as order rules and guidelines tocontrol and prevent of coronavirus.
Journal of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, 2021
Introduction: Novel coronavirus disease is a very infectious respiratory infection transmitted from person-to-person and manifest commonly with fever, dry cough, difficulty breathing, fatigue, myalgia and dyspnea. The World Health Organization (WHO) used the term 2019 novel coronavirus to refer to a coronavirus that affected the lower respiratory tract of patients with pneumonia in Wuhan, China on 29 December 2019. Persons with comorbidities and the aged are most vulnerable to severe disease and accounted for over 40% of deaths globally. Methods: A cross-sectional study involving 320 adult males and females above the age of 18 years was conducted across all seven sub-districts of the Kintampo North Municipal. A total of 21 communities were selected by random sampling and 15 individuals interviewed. Systematic sampling was used to select 15 houses in each community and one household selected by simple random sampling if more than one household in a house. Simple random sampling was used to select one participant for inclusion in the study. Stata version15 software was used for the analysis and reported in frequencies and percentages. Bivariate and multivariate analysis was further conducted to find associations between adherence to COVID-19 safety protocols and the demographic and main variables of the study. Results: About 98% of the study participants demonstrated high level of awareness regarding COVID-19. Even though about 82% of participants reported to be practicing hand washing under running water, almost of all (81.9%) do not satisfy the correct hand washing procedure. The study found significant association between education and adherence to COVID-19 safety protocols. Even though the level of awareness was very high, the study revealed that about 94% of the participants are not adhering to the various preventive measures recommended by the Ministry of Health. About 28.3% of the study participants do not know any sign or symptom of COVID-19. About 95% of the participants are worried about getting infected with COVID-19 and 96% knows the importance of wearing nose mask even though only 24.2% used a nose mask. Conclusion: There is high level of awareness about COVID-19 in the public mostly through the media but most of the people do not adhere to the preventive measures to prevent themselves from infection. Intensified education and enforcement of the preventive measures will be required to interrupt the chain of transmission since the level of awareness seems not to translate to actual practice of preventing infection.
COVID 19: Knowledge, opinions and prevention among the populace
2022
Objective: There was a lot of panic when the COVID-19 pandemic started because a lot was not known about it. However, as the disease unfolded, proven scientific universal precautions are recommended to curb its spread. Methods: This was a cross-sectional online survey of people living in Nigeria. Questionnaires were distributed to consenting participants using the SurveyMonkey and data was collected on sociodemographic knowledge of the aetiology and prevention of COVID-19. Analysis was done with the SPSS version 25. Results: Eighty-five participants with age ranging from 18 to 60 years took part in the study. The mean age was 37.35 ± 11.7years. Forty-seven (47%) had knowledge that COVID-19 infection is from a virus. 29.4% thought it is caused by biological weapons, 1.2% from 5G internet, 7.1% as government's ploy to embezzle money and 9.4% conspiracy theory from the world leaders to reduce world's population. All participants knew that hand washing is a preventive measure against the spread of COVID-19 and majority agreed to the use of sanitizers, social distancing and disinfection of surfaces. Only 30.6% agreed that wearing of facemasks will serve as a preventive measure. Over 90% of the participants agreed that dissemination of appropriate information, use of universal precautions, isolation and intensive treatment of those infected can help prevent the spread of COVID-19. 11.8% of participants knew that additional precautions are needed for aerosol generating procedures. Conclusion: The knowledge of COVID-19 aetiology is poor among the populace and the need to wear face masks as a preventive measure in curtailing the spread of COVID-19 needs to be emphasized.
Knowledge and COVID-19 prevention behavior
International Journal of Health Sciences (IJHS), 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic is still engulfing several parts of the world. This pandemic has an impact on all spheres of people's lives such as health, economy, education and others. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused behavioral changes in society which have made people more concerned about hygiene and health. New habits that occur include wearing masks, washing hands and avoiding crowds. The knowledge possessed by students is often not in line with the student's life behavior or vice versa. During this pandemic, the learning carried out is distance learning so that students cannot see directly the activities carried out by students. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the correlation between knowledge and COVID-19 prevention behavior applied by students. This type of research is a quantitative research with a cross sectional design. The sample in this study were students of Medical Laboratory Technology Expert, Department of Health Analyst, Poltekkes Kemenkes Semarang, totaling 323 people. In this study, an online questionnaire was used as a data collection tool, with the data analyzed descriptively (univariate analysis) followed by a bivariate analysis with the person correlation test which was presented in the form of a frequency table accompanied by a narration. The results showed that there was a significant positive correlation between knowledge and behavior of preventing COVID-19 in students with a p-value of 0.004. Keywords-Knowledge, Behavior, COVID-19. virus that has spread to several parts of the world with a fast transmission process (Kementerian Dalam Negeri, 2020). This virus is an RNA type virus with a positive single strain that attacks the respiratory tract with symptoms such as flu, fever, cough, or shortness of breath (PDPI, 2020). Coronavirus (CoV) is a virus with disease symptoms ranging from mild symptoms to severe symptoms and can cause death. This virus is still in the same family as the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS-CoV) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV) (Kementerian Kesehatan RI, 2020a). Patients with COVID-19 have no age limit and can occur in all age ranges from infants, toddlers, teenagers to the elderly group. The elderly group is an age group that is susceptible to comorbidities such as hypertension, heart disease, diabetes mellitus, etc., so they have a large risk factor for infection and have the potential to transmit COVID-19 (Saqlain et al., 2020). The latest data globally on March 9, 2022, based on WHO (2022) there have been reported cases of COVID-19 in 228 countries with 448,313,293 confirmed cases, 6,011,482 reported deaths. As for cases in Indonesia, the Government of the Republic of Indonesia has reported 5,826,589 people with confirmed COVID-19. There were 151, 135 reported deaths related to COVID-19 (Kementerian Kesehatan RI, 2022). The data shows that COVID-19 cases are still a pandemic that has not ended. Various efforts have been made by the government in an effort to break the chain of transmission of COVID-19. Some of the government's efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic were the use of masks, physical distancing, social distancing, stay at home, work from home for workers, quarantine for patients with COVID-19 symptoms and the implementation of large-scale social restrictions (PSBB). As an implementation of COVID-19 prevention efforts on campus so that a distance learning distance learning system is applied (Kemenkes-RI, 2020b). To ensure the success of this government program, community compliance is very important in supporting the program. This is also greatly influenced by the knowledge, attitudes and behavior applied to COVID-19 efforts. This COVID-19 case has caused changes in attitudes and behavior in the community. People are becoming more concerned about health and wearing masks is an obligation (Fitriani Kahar, Dirawan, Samad, Qomariyah, & Purlinda, 2020). The results of previous studies indicate that there is a relationship between knowledge, attitudes and behavior at Kotagede Market traders with p-value <0.05 (C. K. Sari, 2021). Kahar (2021) mentioned that traders are also at risk of being infected with COVID-19 if they have comorbid risk factors for hypertension and diabetes mellitus (Fitriani Kahar, Devi Etivia Purlinda, Djoko Priyatno, Ichsan Hadipranoto, & Rachmad Bayu Kuncara, 2021). Furthermore, it is also supported by research on the community in Perdana Kusuma Village which shows that attitudes are related to the behavior of preventing COVID-19 transmission (Chadaryanti & Muhafilah, 2021). Likewise, Desti (2021) shows that there is a relationship between knowledge and behavior in implementing health protocols (Desty, Arumsari, & Rohmah, 2021). However, it is different from the research conducted on the Student Association of Hermina Manggala Husada, Winarti (2020) which stated
https://www.ijhsr.org/IJHSR\_Vol.12\_Issue.8\_Aug2022/IJHSR-Abstract20.html, 2022
The world recently faced a serious pandemic caused by a novel coronavirus (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) discovered on December 21, 2019. Public's knowledge and attitudes toward COVID-19 are likely to influence adherence to preventive practices. This study seeks to determine the COVID-19 related knowledge, attitude and practice of students of Adeleke University, Ede, Nigeria This was a cross-sectional study which was conducted between June 9 and July 5, 2022 among students of Adeleke University in Ede, Osun State Nigeria. Data was collected using a structured self-administered questionnaire. Correct COVID-19 related knowledge score ranged between 0 and 13 with a mean score of 7.11 and standard deviation + 2.6. Bulk (63.1%) of respondents had a high level of COVID-19 related knowledge while 36.9% had low level of COVID-19 related knowledge. Score of COVID-19 attitude ranged between 7 and 35 with a mean score of 24.4 and standard deviation +6.9. Seventy-Two percent of respondents have good COVID-19 related Attitude while 28% had poor COVID-19 related Attitude. Score of COVID-19 Related practice ranged between 0 and 6 with a mean score of 4.1 and standard deviation + 1.37. Most (69.2%) respondents have good COVID-19 related practice while 30.8% had Poor COVID-19 related practice. There is statistically significant difference between Knowledge scores among different age groups (P-value 0.03). Respondents with high of COVID 19 related knowledge are 5 times likely to have good COVID-19 related Attitude Awareness and sensitization efforts therefore should be intensified to close the gap in COVID-19 related knowledge, attitude and practice. This will assist to reduce the spread, morbidity and mortality of COVID-19 and help to mitigate the impact of future Coronavirus pandemics.
PERSPECTIVE OF COVID-19 EXISTENCE, KNOWLEDGE AND PREVENTIVE MEASURES AMONG NIGERIAN PEOPLE
Academy Journal of Science and Engineering , 2020
The Corona Virus (COVID-19) has resulted in a massive global spread with growing health crisis even in the sub-Sahara Africa. A poor understanding of COVID-19 among Nigerians may result in delayed treatment and result in the rapid spread of the infection. This study assesses perception of Nigerians relating to existence, knowledge and preventive measures about COVID-19. Web-based and paper-based studies were conducted for a total of 870 participants across the country during the lockdown period through questionnaire. Frequency distribution and percentages were used to compute the responses obtained. Binomial and chi-square tests were used to investigate the level of association in the response of the variables, both with significance set to p<0.05. Majority of the respondents believed the existence of the virus (90.4%). It is seen that COVID-19 is a threat to public health as 60% of the population agreed to this, less than 20% were not aware of symptoms with 80% accepted there were public awareness about the symptoms. 50% across all groups were unwilling to go for COVID-19 test. Furthermore, majority (90%) of the respondents are informed about the virus. More than 40% of the respondents believe the virus was a plot to destabilize the world. Factors such as age and level of education were associated with a poor perception of COVID-19. People's perception is also informed mostly by their religious belief. Chi-square and Binomial test (p<0.05) showed positive perceptions of COVID-19. This study recommends that there be adequate sensitization on the importance of getting tested for COVID-19.
Magna Scientia Advanced Research and Reviews
Background: Knowledge is said to determine a behavioral change as well as the practice of good health. Was the knowledge of COVID-19 able to bring about positive behavioral changes and practices among the populace? This study assessed the knowledge of COVID-19, the practice of preventive measures as well as their predictors. Methodology: Self-administered questionnaires were used to collect data on knowledge of COVID-19 and the practice of WHO COVID-19 preventive measures. Data were analyzed using IBM Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25. Categorical data were analyzed and reported as means, standard deviation, and frequency. Binary logistic regression was done to determine predictors. Results: Nine out of ten participants knew that a virus caused COVID-19 and that it could be transmitted by close contact; however, 3% felt it was a spiritual attack. Most participants knew COVID-19 is transmittable through talking (83.2%), coughing (95%), sneezing (93.2%), an...
Journal of Public Health for Tropical and Coastal Region
Background: Health protocols of COVID-19 prevention need to be applied to suppress the cases. However, the application requires good understanding that has never been studied before, especially among public health students of Diponegoro University. Therefore, this study investigated the knowledge, attitudes, and access to information towards prevention of COVID-19 pandemicMethods: This type of research was descriptive analytic with quantitative approach, and cross sectional research design with a sample of 100 respondents (student from Faculty of Public Health Diponegoro University) selected by using probability sampling. The instrument used was an online questionnaire. Data analysis used is univariate and bivariate with chi-square testResults: The results showed that the respondent's age was dominated by age ≥ 20 years (63%) with the gender mostly female (85%). Knowledge (p = 0.015), attitude (p = 0.013), and access to information (p = 0.000) were related to the practice of Pub...