Effects of Health Belief, Knowledge, and Attitude toward COVID-19 on Prevention Behavior in Health College Students

Kim, Hyeon-Young; Shin, Sun Hwa; Lee, Eun-Hye

doi:10.3390/ijerph19031898

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“…Furthermore, in this study, positive attitude was significantly correlated with better knowledge and lower embrace of conspiracy beliefs. This result highlights the importance of previous evidence suggesting that tackling knowledge would be an essential step in changing attitudes towards disease and should be considered in the interventional measures aiming to control MPOX outbreak [ 73 , 74 ].…”

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Knowledge, Attitude and Conspiracy Beliefs of Healthcare Workers in Lebanon towards Monkeypox

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The emergence of a monkeypox (MPOX) outbreak in 2022 represented the most recent recognizable public health emergency at a global level. Improving knowledge and attitude towards MPOX, particularly among healthcare workers (HCWs), can be a valuable approach in public health preventive efforts aiming to halt MPOX virus spread. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the knowledge and attitude of HCWs in Lebanon towards MPOX and to assess their conspiratorial attitude towards emerging virus infections (EVIs). The current study was based on a cross-sectional online survey distributed via Google Forms during September–December 2022 implementing a convenience sampling approach. The final study sample comprised a total of 646 HCWs: physicians (n = 171, 26.5%), pharmacists (n = 283, 43.8%), and nurses (n = 168, 26.0%), among others (n = 24, 3.7%). Variable defects in MPOX knowledge were detected, with a third of the participants having MPOX knowledge above the 75th percentile (n = 218, 33.7%). Satisfactory attitude towards MPOX (>75th percentile) was observed in less than a third of the participants (n = 198, 30.7%), while a quarter of the study sample endorsed conspiracy beliefs towards EVIs at a high level (>75th percentile, n = 164, 25.4%). Slightly more than two thirds of the participants agreed that MPOX vaccination should be used in disease prevention (n = 440, 68.1%). Better levels of MPOX knowledge and attitude were significantly associated with postgraduate education and older age. Physicians had significantly higher MPOX knowledge compared to other occupational categories. Less endorsement of conspiracies towards EVIs was significantly associated with male sex, occupation as a physician, and postgraduate education. Higher MPOX knowledge was associated with better attitude towards the disease. The current study showed unsatisfactory MPOX knowledge among Lebanese HCWs. Educational efforts can be valuable to improve the attitude towards the disease. Despite the relatively low level of embracing conspiracy beliefs regarding EVIs among HCWs in this study compared to previous studies, this area should be considered based on its potential impact on health-seeking behavior.

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“…A study by Kim et al [59] conducted among health college students in South Korea, and the study by Kosendiak et al [60] conducted among medical students in Poland indicate that there is a significant decrease in PA during COVID-19 pandemic and after pandemic measures have been reduced in relation to time before the beginning of the pandemic. Our study was conducted before the pandemic and future repeated research on the Western Balkan medical student population could have possible benefit because we would be able to establish if changes in PA levels were made due to changes in lifestyle of student population in past two years.…”

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Prevalence and Associated Factors of Physical Activity among Medical Students from the Western Balkans

Grujičić

Ilić

Novaković

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The student population includes young adults who need nutrition and regular physical activity (PA) for mental, cognitive, and physical development. It is estimated that, globally, only 25–40% of the university student population is involved in regular PA. To date, no research has been conducted in the Western Balkans to address the PA of medical students. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence and factors influencing PA among medical students from the Western Balkans. A cross-sectional study included 2452 students from 14 medical faculties in five countries (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia and Serbia). There were significantly more students who engaged than those who did not engage in some type of regular (daily) PA. Gender, overweight or obesity, and household income are significantly associated with students’ PA. Students who are more often involved in regular daily PA and have higher daily PA levels are more likely to be males whose household income is above average. In order to improve the health of the student population, the public health authorities need to continuously investigate the PA of students and introduce appropriate activities to increase their level of PA.

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“…R square states that attitude and knowledge 63% had a positive effect on the implementation of prevention practices (5M). This relates to research on HCPs in the cities of Medan and Batam in the research by (Kim et al, 2022), where attitude had a significant relationship based on a p value (0.036) and the research of (Assefa et al, 2020) with a strong effect (f = 0.36). In the analysis at the level of the linear coefficient of the regression model, if the attitude increases by 1 point, the prevention practice will increase by 0.287 points (Islam et al, 2020).…”

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Knowledge, Attitude and Prevention Practice Among the Volunteers (HCPS) in Implementing 5M

Labetubun

Ayubi²,

Krianto³

2022

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Health care providers (HCP) are a group that has a high risk of being exposed to COVID-19. Due to the large number of personnel needed to handle COVID-19, in several hospitals, health volunteers were involved to assist in the treatment process. As workers who deal directly with COVID-19 patients, volunteers are the targets in this study. HCP's health behavior can influence the escalation of prevention and control cases at their level. Therefore, this study aims to examine the practice of knowledge, attitudes, prevention (KAP) and factors related to the application of 5M on volunteers (HCP) at Hospital "X", Jakarta, Indonesia. This type of research is a quantitative study, with a cross-sectional research design. A cross-sectional study, with multiple logistic regression analysis conducted on 232 volunteers (HCP) in 2021. The instrument used was a modified questionnaire from 7 previous studies, both regional and international, which have been tested for validity and reliability in the same study. group (30 volunteers) and the same hospital. Based on the results, it was found that the implementation of 5M volunteers were categorized as "poor prevention practices" (67.7%), "inadequate knowledge" (58.2%) and "negative attitudes" (55.2%), with R square through multivariate test of 0.630 which means that the influence of the independent variable on the dependent variable is 63% and the variables related to 5M behavior (p-value <0.05) are knowledge and attitudes. Attitude is known as the most dominant variable with a p-value of 0.014.

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Effects of Health Belief, Knowledge, and Attitude toward COVID-19 on Prevention Behavior in Health College Students

Cited by 26 publications

References 30 publications

Knowledge, Attitude and Conspiracy Beliefs of Healthcare Workers in Lebanon towards Monkeypox

Knowledge, Attitude and Conspiracy Beliefs of Healthcare Workers in Lebanon towards Monkeypox

Prevalence and Associated Factors of Physical Activity among Medical Students from the Western Balkans

Knowledge, Attitude and Prevention Practice Among the Volunteers (HCPS) in Implementing 5M

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