Knowledge, attitude, and practices toward COVID-19 among the college students in a southern city of Karnataka

Knowledge, attitude, and practices regarding COVID-19 among college-degree students in Southern district of India

“…In this study, the majority of first-year (145, 88.4%) and second-year (74, 69.2%) degree students had positive attitude scores toward COVID-19 infection, followed by neutral [12 (7.3%) and 26 (24.3%)] and negative attitudes [7 (4.3%) and 7 (6.5%)]. The cross-sectional study conducted by Shabadi et al (14) in Mysuru revealed that median (IQR) attitude scores for the first, second, third and fourth years were 3 (2-5), 4 (2-5), 4 (2-5) and 4 (2.5-5) respectively.…”

“…The median (IQR) attitude scores among men and women were 7 (6-7) and 7 (5-7), respectively (P = 0.44). Similarly, the cross-sectional study carried out by Shabadi et al (14) in Mysuru showed that the median (IQR) attitude scores among males and females were 4 (2-5) and 4 (2-5), respectively (P = 0.699). However, the studies of Sazali et al (20) and Srivastava and Reddy (21), showed that men had slightly higher median attitude scores [49 (5.25) vs. 48.5 (5.25)] and the mean score.…”

“…In our study, 293 (73.25%) respondents were female and 107 (26.75%) were male. Similarly, the cross-sectional studies conducted by Shabadi et al (14) in Mysuru, Paudel et al (8) in Nepal, Hatabu et al (15) in Japan, Naseef et al (16) in Birzeit reported that the number of female students were more than the male students [130 (50.8%) vs. 126 (49.2%), 191 (52.8%) vs. 171 (47.2%), 402 (52.5%) vs. 364 (47.5%) and 488 (73.4%) vs. 177 (26.6%) respectively]. In our In our study, all men 107 (100%) had good knowledge regarding COVID-19 infection, whereas 276 (94.2%) females had good and 17 (5.8%) had average knowledge (P > 0.01).…”

“…In the present study, all the third-year 129 (100%) and second-year 107 (100%) degree students had good knowledge scores regarding COVID-19 compared to first-year students, and 147 (89.6%) had good knowledge, and 17 (10.4%) had average knowledge (P < 0.0001). The cross-sectional study conducted by Shabadi et al (14) in Mysuru reported that median (IQR) knowledge scores for the first, second, third and fourth years were 5 (4-5.25), 4 (3-5), 5 (4-6) and 5 (4)(5)(6) respectively. This difference may be due to increased awareness and maturity among students as they academically progress.…”