Awareness and Attitude of Undergraduate Medical Students towards 2019-novel Corona virus

Ikhlaq, Azal; Bint-E-Riaz, Hunniya; Bashir, Imtiaz; Ijaz, Farhat

doi:10.12669/pjms.36.covid19-s4.2636

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“…In our finding, around 91.2% of Ethiopian Population had heard about Novel coronavirus at the time of the study. It is comparable with a study conducted in Pakistan in which more than 90% of medical students had heard about the disease (Ikhaq et al 2020). Furthermore, this finding is in line with a study conducted in Nepal in which 91.6 % of population aware all the clinical features of Coronavirus (Vaidya et al, 2020).…”

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confidence: 85%

“…Africa's already fragile health systems, coupled with a high burden of would cost the continent greatly. The speed with which countries can detect report and respond to outbreaks can be a reflection of their wider institutional capacity (Ikhaq, Riaz et al 2020, Olapegba et al 2020. The threat of COVID-19 to health systems in Africa can be compared with a metaphor which says "the eye of the crocodile"; which means in the lake, only the eyes of the crocodile is visible on the surface while the rest of the body is immersed in water.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The knowledge and practice towards COVID-19 pandemic prevention among residents of Ethiopia: An Online Cross-Sectional Study

Bekele

Tolossa

Tsegaye

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Background:The Novel coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) is now the international concerns and a pandemic, since the World Health Organization declared as the outbreaks. The objective of this study to assess the prevention knowledge and practices towards the COVID-19 among the residents of Ethiopia. Methods:An online cross-sectional study was conducted among the sample of Ethiopian residents via social platforms of the author's network with the popular media such as Facebook, in Ethiopia from the April 15-22, 2020 and successfully recruited 341 responses. The snowball sampling was employed to recruit the participants. The data were analyzed using STATA version 14. Descriptive statistics were used to summarize the level of knowledge and practices. Results:The majority of the respondents (80.35%) were male. The overall prevention knowledge of the participants towards the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was high. About 91.2% of the participant was heard about the novel coronavirus disease and Social Medias' were the main source of the information. About 90% of the participants had a good prevention knowledge of maintaining social distance and frequent hand washing. The practices of the participants towards the COVID-19 prevention were very low. Out of 341 participants, only 61% and 84% of the participants were practicing social distance and frequent hand washing, respectively. Conclusions:Majority of the participants had knew the ways of protecting themselves from the novel coronavirus. But, there was deficiencies of changing these prevention knowledge to practice. This indicates that there was gap between knowledge and implementation of prevention strategies in the community. The concerned body should focus on providing education for the community regarding the implementation of the prevention knowledge to practice.

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confidence: 99%

The knowledge and practice towards COVID-19 pandemic prevention among residents of Ethiopia: An Online Cross-Sectional Study

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Tolossa

Tsegaye

et al. 2020

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“…Students from MBBS and BDS stream were aware of facts like the causative factors for the COVID-19 disease (95.6%) and the type of virus causing this infection (92.7%). This was in accordance with a recent study from Pakistan [25], where majority of students, (97.4%) were aware about the causes and the viral nature of the disease and also with another study from India, which showed 92.7% of the participants' had good knowledge. 26 Our study has shown that only 71% of students were aware about the mode of transmission of this virus, which is lesser compared to the results from a similar study among students, where 97.4% of them knew about the transmission modes and the signs and symptoms of the disease.…”

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Knowledge about the COVID-19 pandemic among undergraduate medical and dental students in Lalitpur, Nepal

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Singh

Bajracharya

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Background Health science students are an important source of support to health systems. The number of cases of coronavirus disease-19 is still increasing especially in South Asia. Therefore, for better management, there is an urgent need to understand the knowledge of the disease among health science students. Therefore, this study was undertaken to assess the knowledge of medical and dental students regarding the coronavirus pandemic.Methods A cross sectional study was performed during the third week of June among first to final year medical and dental students. As the country was in lockdown, a structured online questionnaire was used to obtain data. The responses obtained were cleaned, coded, entered in IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows and the normality of the data checked using one-sample Kolmogorov Smirnov test (p < 0.05). The demographic parameters were tabulated and total score compared among different subgroups of participants. The frequency of different measures mentioned by respondents to control the pandemic were also noted.Results Out of the 565 participants, 336 (59.6%) were females followed by 229 (40.4%) males. Nearly half of the participants, 282 (49.8%) were belonging to age group 21–23 years. Majority 415 (73.5%) were undergraduate medical and 150 (26.5%) were undergraduate dental students. The largest number of respondents, 140 (24.9%) were from second year of study and 344 (60.9%) were from urban areas. The median total score was 21 and the interquartile range 4. The maximum possible score was 30. The scores among students belonging to different years of study were significantly different (p = 0.033). Total scores were not significantly different among other subgroups of respondents.Conclusions The knowledge of the participants was good. Deficiencies in knowledge were noted in certain areas and these should be addressed through an educational intervention. In countries where epidemic is on the rise, strategies to keep health science students updated with proper information related to COVID-19 is important. Similar studies can be undertaken in other medical colleges in the country and in nursing and pharmacy colleges also.

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“…Students from MBBS and BDS stream were aware of facts like the causative factors for the COVID-19 disease (95.6%) and the type of virus causing this infection (92.7%). This was in accordance with a recent study from Turkey and Pakistan [17,21], where majority of students, (97.4%) were aware about the causes and the viral nature of the disease and also with another study from India, which showed 92.7% of the participants' had good knowledge. [22] Our study showed that only 71% of students were aware about the mode of transmission of this virus, which is lesser compared to a similar study from India among students, where 91% knew about the transmission modes and the signs and symptoms of the disease.…”

Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 91%

Knowledge about the COVID-19 pandemic among undergraduate medical and dental students in Lalitpur, Nepal

Jha

Singh

Bajracharya

et al. 2020

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Background The number of cases of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) is still increasing especially in South Asia. There is an urgent need to measure the knowledge of the disease among health science students who may be required to play an active role in pandemic control. The research was conducted to answer how does Nepalese medical students' knowledge about coronavirus compare to medical students in other countries and what are the educational needs of medical students who may be called in to support the treatment of COVID-19 in Nepal. Methods A cross sectional study was performed during the third week of June among first to final year medical and dental students. As the country was in lockdown, a structured online questionnaire was used to obtain data. The responses obtained were cleaned, coded, entered in IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows and the normality of the data checked using one-sample Kolmogorov Smirnov test (p<0.05). The demographic parameters were tabulated and total score compared among different subgroups of participants. The frequency of different measures mentioned by respondents to control the pandemic were also noted. Results Out of the 565 participants, 336 (59.6%) were females followed by 229 (40.4%) males. Nearly half of the participants, 282 (49.8%) were belonging to age group 21-23 years. Majority 415 (73.5%) were undergraduate medical and 150 (26.5%) were undergraduate dental students. The largest number of respondents, 140 (24.9%) were from second year of study and 344 (60.9%) were from urban areas. The median total score was 21 and the interquartile range 4. The maximum possible score was 30. The scores among students belonging to different years of study were significantly different (p=0.033). Total scores were not significantly different among other subgroups of respondents. Conclusions The knowledge of the participants was good. Deficiencies in knowledge were noted in certain areas and these should be addressed through an educational intervention. In countries where epidemic is on the rise, strategies to keep health science students updated with proper information related to COVID-19 is important. Similar studies can be undertaken in other medical colleges in the country and in nursing and pharmacy colleges also.

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Awareness and Attitude of Undergraduate Medical Students towards 2019-novel Corona virus

Cited by 87 publications

References 17 publications

The knowledge and practice towards COVID-19 pandemic prevention among residents of Ethiopia: An Online Cross-Sectional Study

The knowledge and practice towards COVID-19 pandemic prevention among residents of Ethiopia: An Online Cross-Sectional Study

Knowledge about the COVID-19 pandemic among undergraduate medical and dental students in Lalitpur, Nepal

Knowledge about the COVID-19 pandemic among undergraduate medical and dental students in Lalitpur, Nepal

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