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Evaluation of Jordan’s citizens’ awareness of the emerging Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease: A mixed analysis of the symptoms, transmission, and preventive measures
This study aimed to evaluate Jordan citizens’ awareness, knowledge, and practice concerning Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) symptoms, routes of transmission, and preventive measures. An online self-administered questionnaire was filled out completely by participants (N = 328) from mainly four major cities...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10022341/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36962653 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0001041 |
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author | Almazari, Inas Bdeir, Roba Basheer, Haneen A. |
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description | This study aimed to evaluate Jordan citizens’ awareness, knowledge, and practice concerning Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) symptoms, routes of transmission, and preventive measures. An online self-administered questionnaire was filled out completely by participants (N = 328) from mainly four major cities in Jordan during the period beginning of May-end of September 2020. Participants’ main sources of knowledge about COVID-19 were the government websites (87.8%), social media (87.5%), and Television (TV) (81.1%). The majority of participants valued the drizzle of cough from infected individuals (96.3%), direct contact with contaminated surfaces (91.5%), and direct contact with infected individuals (84.5%) as the highest rates of the route of transmission. The highest rates chosen as symptoms of COVID-19 viral infections were high-grade fever (99.1%), troublesome breathing (96.6%), coughing (92.7%), headache (91.2%), and loss of smell and taste (80.8%). The majority of participants (>92%) strongly agreed on the behavioral protective measures such as no face touching, wearing a mask, the use of alcoholic hand disinfectants, and the need for self-isolation. This study showed that the Jordanian citizens were aware of the epidemiology of COVID-19 and related infection preventive measures. This agrees well with the efforts done by the Ministry of health and governmental organizations to spread the necessary information about the virus among citizens. |
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spelling | pubmed-100223412023-03-17 Evaluation of Jordan’s citizens’ awareness of the emerging Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease: A mixed analysis of the symptoms, transmission, and preventive measures Almazari, Inas Bdeir, Roba Basheer, Haneen A. PLOS Glob Public Health Research Article This study aimed to evaluate Jordan citizens’ awareness, knowledge, and practice concerning Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) symptoms, routes of transmission, and preventive measures. An online self-administered questionnaire was filled out completely by participants (N = 328) from mainly four major cities in Jordan during the period beginning of May-end of September 2020. Participants’ main sources of knowledge about COVID-19 were the government websites (87.8%), social media (87.5%), and Television (TV) (81.1%). The majority of participants valued the drizzle of cough from infected individuals (96.3%), direct contact with contaminated surfaces (91.5%), and direct contact with infected individuals (84.5%) as the highest rates of the route of transmission. The highest rates chosen as symptoms of COVID-19 viral infections were high-grade fever (99.1%), troublesome breathing (96.6%), coughing (92.7%), headache (91.2%), and loss of smell and taste (80.8%). The majority of participants (>92%) strongly agreed on the behavioral protective measures such as no face touching, wearing a mask, the use of alcoholic hand disinfectants, and the need for self-isolation. This study showed that the Jordanian citizens were aware of the epidemiology of COVID-19 and related infection preventive measures. This agrees well with the efforts done by the Ministry of health and governmental organizations to spread the necessary information about the virus among citizens. Public Library of Science 2022-09-28 /pmc/articles/PMC10022341/ /pubmed/36962653 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0001041 Text en © 2022 Almazari et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Almazari, Inas Bdeir, Roba Basheer, Haneen A. Evaluation of Jordan’s citizens’ awareness of the emerging Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease: A mixed analysis of the symptoms, transmission, and preventive measures |
title | Evaluation of Jordan’s citizens’ awareness of the emerging Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease: A mixed analysis of the symptoms, transmission, and preventive measures |
title_full | Evaluation of Jordan’s citizens’ awareness of the emerging Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease: A mixed analysis of the symptoms, transmission, and preventive measures |
title_fullStr | Evaluation of Jordan’s citizens’ awareness of the emerging Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease: A mixed analysis of the symptoms, transmission, and preventive measures |
title_full_unstemmed | Evaluation of Jordan’s citizens’ awareness of the emerging Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease: A mixed analysis of the symptoms, transmission, and preventive measures |
title_short | Evaluation of Jordan’s citizens’ awareness of the emerging Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease: A mixed analysis of the symptoms, transmission, and preventive measures |
title_sort | evaluation of jordan’s citizens’ awareness of the emerging coronavirus (covid-19) disease: a mixed analysis of the symptoms, transmission, and preventive measures |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10022341/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36962653 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0001041 |
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