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Introduction: The studies on knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) regarding COVID-19 help to identify erroneous concepts and inadequate practices related to the
disease. This baseline information is essential to design effective strategies and improve adherence to prevention measures.
Objective: To identify the COVID-19-related KAP in Venezuel...
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... La alta frecuencia de prácticas inadecuadas relacionadas al uso de mascarillas podría ser explicada por el incremento en el precio de éstas y de los principales alimentos que constituyen la canasta básica familiar, por ello muchas familias optaron por priorizar en abastecerse de alimentos cubriendo así las necesidades alimentarias de sus miembros y dejando de lado su bioseguridad y, de esta manera, alargaron el tiempo de uso de las mascarillas (32). Esto es similar con lo descrito por Chancón, et al. quienes informaron que el 50 % de la población estudiada se cambiaba de mascarilla cada dos días o más (33) . ...
Objetivo: Comparar el nivel de conocimientos, actitudes y prácticas frente a COVID-19 entre los pobladores de Monsefú y Chiclayo durante el año 2021. Métodos y materiales: Estudio observacional, transversal, analítico y prospectivo en una muestra de 782 personas. Los conocimientos, actitudes y prácticas se midieron con un cuestionario validado de 20 preguntas. Resultados: Los participantes se compusieron por 48,7 % y 51,3 % de pobladores residentes de Monsefú y Chiclayo respectivamente; el grupo etario prevalente estuvo comprendido de 18 a 29 años (62,7 %). El nivel de conocimiento óptimo fue mayor en Chiclayo (35,2 %) con respectoa Monsefú (27,3 %); en cuanto a la actitud, fue positiva con mayor frecuencia en Monsefú (49,3 %), mientras que las prácticas adecuadas se reflejaron mejor en Chiclayo (59,9 %). En el análisis multivariado se demostró que edad, estado civil, distrito, y la procedencia de los conocimientos se relacionaron con el nivel de conocimiento óptimo (p<0,005); el nivel de conocimiento y laprocedencia de estos, se relacionaron con actitudes positivas (p<0,005); y, el nivel de conocimientos, edad, sexo y la procedencia de conocimientos se relacionaron a prácticas adecuadas (p<0,005). Conclusiones: Los pobladores de Chiclayo presentaron mayor conocimiento y prácticas adecuadas sobre la COVID-19, en comparación a los de Monsefú; mientras que, estos últimos presentaronmejor actitud.
... Following a comprehensive literature review of relevant past research (Abouzid et al., 2021;Al Ahdab, 2021;Chacón et al., 2021;Isah et al., 2021;Masoud et al., 2021;Rajbanshi et al., 2022), a web-based questionnaire was constructed. The instrument incorporated validated questions from prior studies to ensure content validity. ...
This study examined how well people in Kuwait followed guidelines to prevent the spread of COVID-19. To prevent the virus's spread, precautionary measures such as social distancing, wearing masks, and hygiene practices have employed. The purpose of this study was to analyze the Kuwaiti population's adherence to precautionary measures during the epidemic. A cross-sectional study was carried out between March and August of 2022 with the use of a self-administered online questionnaire distributed to Kuwaitis aged 20 or above. The questionnaire included demographic questions as well as questions on preventative behaviors. Descriptive statistics, chi-square analysis, and multivariate regression analysis were used to examine the data. The findings revealed that 54.8% of individuals had good behaviors, with hand cleanliness being the most prevalent and eating a healthy diet being the least common. Chronic illnesses, a history of COVID-19 infection, and the COVID-19 vaccine were all linked to levels of practice. Regression analysis demonstrated that COVID-19 infection considerably enhanced the likelihood of adherence to preventative measures. The data indicate that, while a sizable majority of the Kuwaiti population engaged in beneficial activities, there is still room for improvement, particularly in terms of adopting a better diet. Future efforts should concentrate on marketing and educating the public about the relevance of COVID-19 prevention measures.
... Peru (23.1%), Brazil (41%), Paraguay (86.71%), and Venezuela (42.8%) [25,27,31,32]. The participants' optimism may be related to the government's control measures even before the first reported case in the country in 2020. ...
... Likewise, in countries like Venezuela (56.3%) and African countries [32][33][34][35], the population violated mandatory isolation by visiting crowded places for reasons such as having to return to work due to insufficient income and food shortage. However, this was not observed in studies from China (96.4%), ...
... Peru (23.1%), Brazil (41%), Paraguay (86.71%), and Venezuela (42.8%) [25,27,28,31,32]. ...
This study aimed to assess the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors related to COVID-19 among Colombians. A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out during the pandemic between November 2020 and May 2021 using a survey that focused on knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding COVID-19. The online survey was completed by 1424 participants who had a history of COVID-19 illness, and the study spanned 3 months. Many respondents were male students who demonstrated adequate knowledge of COVID-19 symptoms and prevention measures, although their understanding of its transmission routes was limited. Nevertheless, 65.9% expressed optimism that COVID-19 would ultimately be successfully controlled, and 71.8% had confidence in the Colombian government’s handling of the crisis. Additionally, more than half of the participants admitted to visiting crowded places, and this practice was more common among those who were less informed about COVID-19. However, many respondents reported using face masks in public. This highlights a significant gap between theoretical knowledge and actual practices that need to be addressed. To bridge this gap, establishing an interdisciplinary support network is crucial, as is launching mass education campaigns targeting specific population groups, and compiling reports on successful practices implemented during the pandemic. These efforts are essential for enhancing the overall level of knowledge, and the attitudes and practices related to COVID-19, and also for preparing for future health emergencies.
... The majority of subjects had poor general knowledge (53.9%). Participants with sound knowledge only accounted for 9.6%, higher than the study of Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Khue, with the percentage of subjects with good knowledge accounted for 6.5% [13] but much lower than the study of other authors [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20], [21]. This difference may be due to our research and Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Khue's similarity in assessment criteria; people must correctly answer >80% of the questions to be considered good knowledge. ...
Background: COVID-19, a global health threat for over two years, has extensive and widespread effects. Due to the ever-changing nature of the Coronavirus, new variants are continually appearing, and more contagious variants emerge (such as Delta or Omicron variants, etc.) if we neglect to prevent the Covid-19 disease. A recent World Health Organization report shows that good hand hygiene and simple, low-cost prevention practices can prevent more than 70% of infections of Covid-19. Therefore, strategies to practice personal hygiene, vaccination, avoid overcrowding and wear masks outdoors are still recommended for disease control and prevention. Our study aims to provide the public with accurate, objective, and scientific knowledge on COVID-19 and its prevention. Objectives: 1. Assess the current status of people's knowledge, attitudes, and practices in the Phong Dien district in the new period. 2. Determine some factors related to people's disease prevention practice. Materials and methods: 1632 participants in cross-sectional descriptive research. Collect data by directly interviewing the subjects through a set of prepared questionnaires. Results: The percentage of people with good general knowledge is 9.6%, positive attitude at 89.9%, and good general practice is 32.5%. Most people know the cause of Covid-19 (99.1%); the lowest knowledge is that eating a healthy diet can fight Covid-19, accounting for 11.1%. Regarding COVID-19 prevention practices, 52.0% of people have time to wash their hands ≥20 seconds, and most of them wash their hands more than 90% of the time after touching surfaces such as door locks, elevator buttons when coughing, sneezing, etc. The content about good attitudes accounted for 85.3% to 96.4%. Subjects who have been infected with COVID19 good practices is 1.5 times higher than those who have never been infected with COVID-19 (p=0.02), families with ever infected with COVID-19 people have good practices 1.3 times higher than families without people infected with COVID-19 times (p=0.05). People with good knowledge and a positive attitude have an excellent practice rate 2.7 times higher than the other group, p<0.05. Conclusions: more attention should be paid to the role of COVID-19 epidemic prevention in the new normal period.
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has spread globally, with over 695 million confirmed cases and 6.9 million deaths as of September 2023. Compliance with protective measures is considered essential to combat the pandemic. Objectives: To assess the adherence of the Jordanian population to preventive measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey specifically focused on the habits and practices of Jordanians during the pandemic, as mentioned in the introductory sentence of the Google Forms questionnaire. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted among the general population in Jordan aged 18 and above using an online questionnaire distributed from March to July 2022. The questionnaire was divided into two sections: demographic characteristics and practice-related questions. Data were collected using Google Forms and analyzed using R Statistical Software. Results: Most of the 409 participants were under 30 years old (65.5%), female (70%), and held a college diploma or higher degree (80%). Around 57% had been infected with COVID-19 at least once, while 60% had a relative, friend, or colleague who died due to COVID-19. More than half of the participants (54%) demonstrated favorable practices. The multivariate analysis revealed that a previous COVID-19 infection significantly increased the odds of having favorable practices (OR=2.44; CI[1.59-3.77]; p<0.001). Conclusion: This study evaluated how Jordanians adhered to COVID-19 preventive measures during the pandemic. It was found that roughly half of the population effectively followed precautions such as using masks and hand sanitizers, although adherence to a balanced diet was less frequent. The likelihood of taking precautions increased after having had COVID-19. The study also reported high vaccine acceptance rates. These findings underscore the importance of public adherence to preventive measures, especially in areas like nutrition, and provide insights for future pandemic responses.
INTRODUCCIÓN: Los humanos tienen razones con tal de evitar la vacunación aunque se ha demostrado su eficacia. Desde la pandemia por SARS-COV2 han surgido varios mitos vacunales, cuyo conocimiento detallado es importante para desarrollar estrategias y convencer a la población utilizar las vacunas adecuadas para reducir la gravedad de la enfermedad. OBJETIVO: Identificar los factores socioculturales que intervienen en la reticencia vacunal contra la COVID-19 en la población derechohabiente de la UMF 9. METODOLOGÍA: Estudio transversal analítico en 313 derechohabientes adscritos a la UMF 9, se aplicó el instrumento de recolección de datos para identificar reticencia y factores de riesgo para reticencia a la vacunación contra COVID-19 entre noviembre 2022 y marzo 2023. Para el análisis estadístico se utilizó el programa SPSS. RESULTADOS: El 91.4% esta vacunado contra la COVID-19. Con respecto a las creencias personales como barreras de salud (58%), la mayoría de la población se encuentra sin riesgo y 1 de cada 10 pacientes presenta reticencia, el principal factor asociado fue la percepción negativa de la vacuna contra COVID-19. CONCLUSIÓN: Los factores socioculturales no influyen en la reticencia vacunal, al contrario de la percepción personal que tiene cada individuo ante la vacunación en general y la vacuna contra COVID-19 que tienen significancia estadística son los factores principales para la presencia de reticencia vacunal.
Background
Coronavirus disease 2019 (SARS-CoV-2) was declared a global pandemic by WHO after it spreads quickly around the world from its source city in Wuhan. Africa has some of the lowest documented SARS-CoV-2 incidences globally, with over 9 million confirmed cases as of December 2022. This may be due to efficient mitigation, outbreak response, or demographic traits. Surveillance capability may have suffered as nations changed funding, regulations, and testing plans. Therefore, this study was to document the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2, its characteristics, and the socio-economic characteristics in the two mining districts of Solwezi and Kalumbila of Zambia.
Methods
Between 28 March and 26 April 2021, a cross-sectional cluster-sample survey of households in two mining districts of Zambia was conducted. Twenty standard enumeration areas (SEAs) were randomly selected in Kansanshi (17 SEA) and Kalumbila (3 SEA) from a total of 67 SEA that encompass the two mines. Members of households aged <5 years were not eligible to participate in the survey. All participants that consented to participate in the interview were also asked to consent to test for SARS-CoV-2 infection using a rapid diagnostic test (RDT), which tested for recent infection and past exposure to the virus (IgM and IgG, respectively).
Result
Out of the total sample of 3,047 that were present for the interview, 622 of them agreed to test for COVID-19. Of the total that tested for SARS-CoV-2, 2.6% were IgM positive while 9.0% were IgG positive. Despite the above results, 1,586 participants that agreed to the interview indicated a low self-risk assessment of getting COVID-19 (46.5%) or someone (45.5%). On the public health measures, participants who did handwashing more than usual (65.0%), not hand sanitizing more than usual (69.0%), not disinfecting surfaces in their households than usual (87.5%), not avoiding drinking from bars or nightclubs (90.6%), and not wearing a mask when out in public places (71.1%). In the logistic multivariable model, participants with age 24 years and above (AOR = 2.94; 95% CI = 1.10, 7.81) and having experienced symptoms of SARS-CoV-2 (AOR = 2.60; 95% CI: 1.33, 5.05) had a significant effect on testing positive for SARS-CoV-2.
Conclusion
Although the results showed that active COVID-19 prevalence in Solwezi and Kalumbila communities surrounding the two mines was low, exposure to infection was five times high. Government and mining firms should continue to sensitize the community members on the preventive measures of COVID-19 and continue with community testing so that all those positive but without symptoms can self-isolate and those with symptoms and sick can be admitted to the hospital.
A healthy lifestyle is desired by everybody, and this involves health-promoting and health-protecting behaviours that are complementary. Health protective behaviours must be learned early in life and particularly in preparation to face pandemics. Children must learn them as part of the socialization process in school and at home to prevent the transmission of diseases. This study explored the knowledge and practices of health-protective behaviours by early childhood learners. The population for this study was learners in early childhood schools in Benin City, Nigeria. A sample of 200 early childhood learners whose parents consented was selected purposively from early childhood schools. An interview schedule that was validated with a reliability of .83 was used in collecting data by the researchers. The data collected was analysed using frequencies, percentages and Pearson product-moment correlation. More than 60% of the learners had knowledge of washing hands regularly, using of hand sanitizers, covering their mouth with elbow when coughing among others as health protective measures which are part of non-pharmaceutical initiatives. Furthermore, more than 50% of the learners practice protective measures. Overall, the level of knowledge and practice of the measures was encouraging. Schools should continue to teach learners non-pharmaceutical initiatives in preparation for any outbreak of pandemics; the practice of such initiatives should also be enforced.
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Bilginin herkes tarafından aynı seviyede elde edilmesi ve bilginin toplum
kesimleri arasında eşit bir şekilde paylaştırılmasının mümkün olmadığı su
götürmez bir gerçektir. Toplum güncel gelişmelerle ilgili bilgi (haber) elde etmek
için medyaya ihtiyaç duymaktadır. Medyanın tüketimi artıran etkisinin (Demirel
ve Yegen, 2015:125-127) yanında medyanın içerikleri de haber, bilgi vb. toplum
ve bireyler tarafından tüketilmektedir (Aydoğdu Karaaslan, 2018). Medya takibi,
haberin elde etmesi ve kullanması haberi tüketim bağlamında ele alınmasını
sağlamaktadır. Son yıllarda yeni medya haber tüketimi bağlamında çalışmalara
konu olan alanların başında gelmektedir (İnce, 2017; Medya Kullanımı ve Haber
Tüketimi Raporu, 2019). Dijital medya ile birlikte tüketim ürünleri ve hizmetler çok
hızla bir şekilde yayıldığı (Omur, 2022:47) gibi haber de dijital medya sayesinde
çok hızlı bir şekilde milyonlara ulaşmaktadır. Diğer taraftan haber bir bilgi türü
olarak (Park, 1940) toplum kesimleri tarafından eşit şekilde elde edilememektedir.
Objetivos:
evaluar el nivel de conocimiento de estudiantes de 5to y 6to de secundaria sobre vacunas Covid-19 y aceptación de las mismas en esta población.
Métodos:
se realizó un estudio transversal de tipo cuantitativo basado en encuestas. Tomando como muestra de conveniencia a estudiantes de la Unidad Educativa Villa Copacabana, en el municipio de Tolata, Cochabamba, Bolivia, quienes respondieron de manera anónima dicho cuestionario.
Resultados:
del total de estudiantes 57 (tasa de respuesta del 85%) respondieron el cuestionario, hubo un 68,42% de la población que demostró un nivel medio en cuanto a su conocimiento de vacunas Covid, siendo este el resultado predominante. Seguido del 19,30% con bajo nivel de conocimiento y finalmente el 12,28% con alto nivel. Los estudiantes con alto nivel de conocimiento estuvieron de acuerdo con recibir la vacuna en un 85,71%, mientras un 14,29% se mostraron indecisos. Por otro lado, aquellos con bajo nivel de conocimiento se dividen en un 72,73% de acuerdo, 18,18% indeciso y un 9,09% en desacuerdo con recibir la vacuna. Se observó que dentro del grupo de estudiantes indecisos o en desacuerdo con la vacunación, el 66,67% tienen un familiar que rechaza la vacunación.
Conclusiones:
se observó que la influencia familiar afecta la opinión de los jóvenes sobre las vacunas, incluso más que su nivel de conocimiento sobre las mismas.
