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Cross-Sectional Study on Awareness and Knowledge of COVID-19 Among Senior pharmacy Students
Extraordinary actions have been implemented in an effort to control the rapid spread of the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic in Egypt. People’s adherence to control measures is influenced by their knowledge, attitudes and practices towards the disease. Therefore, in the present study we assessed pharmacy s...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7295146/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32542552 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10900-020-00859-z |
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author | Hamza, Marwa S. Badary, Osama A. Elmazar, Mohamed M. |
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description | Extraordinary actions have been implemented in an effort to control the rapid spread of the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic in Egypt. People’s adherence to control measures is influenced by their knowledge, attitudes and practices towards the disease. Therefore, in the present study we assessed pharmacy senior students’ knowledge, attitudes and practices towards the COVID-19 pandemic. An online questionnaire was created and it consisted of 12 questions testing their knowledge about COVID-19 clinical characteristics, transmission routes and prevention and control steps. Among senior pharmacy students (n = 238), 70% were females and 63% were living in greater Cairo. Their main source of information included social media (70%), published articles (48%) and television (48%). The overall correct knowledge score was 83%. Most of the students displayed a good COVID-19 knowledge level (72.5% of the students). The students were least informed when trying to answer questions about hyper-coagulation, as a major cause for death in patients with severe COVID-19, and about the timings on the necessity to wear masks. Assessment of students’ attitudes and practices towards COVID-19 reflected that 87% of them were confident that health care teams and scientists could win the fight against the virus. In addition, 72% of students agreed that COVID-19 will be controlled successfully. The greater the students’ knowledge, the more confident they felt that COVID-19 will be controlled successfully (OR 2.2, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.03–4.72). Good behavioral practice towards COVID-19 control was confirmed when 87% of students answered that they didn’t go out to any crowded place. Females were 3.6 times (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.03–3.11) more likely to avoid going out than males. Bad behavioral practice became evident when approximately 50% of students admitted that they did not wear masks when they left their house. Therefore, more efforts should be taken to protect future pharmacists from this pandemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-72951462020-06-16 Cross-Sectional Study on Awareness and Knowledge of COVID-19 Among Senior pharmacy Students Hamza, Marwa S. Badary, Osama A. Elmazar, Mohamed M. J Community Health Original Paper Extraordinary actions have been implemented in an effort to control the rapid spread of the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic in Egypt. People’s adherence to control measures is influenced by their knowledge, attitudes and practices towards the disease. Therefore, in the present study we assessed pharmacy senior students’ knowledge, attitudes and practices towards the COVID-19 pandemic. An online questionnaire was created and it consisted of 12 questions testing their knowledge about COVID-19 clinical characteristics, transmission routes and prevention and control steps. Among senior pharmacy students (n = 238), 70% were females and 63% were living in greater Cairo. Their main source of information included social media (70%), published articles (48%) and television (48%). The overall correct knowledge score was 83%. Most of the students displayed a good COVID-19 knowledge level (72.5% of the students). The students were least informed when trying to answer questions about hyper-coagulation, as a major cause for death in patients with severe COVID-19, and about the timings on the necessity to wear masks. Assessment of students’ attitudes and practices towards COVID-19 reflected that 87% of them were confident that health care teams and scientists could win the fight against the virus. In addition, 72% of students agreed that COVID-19 will be controlled successfully. The greater the students’ knowledge, the more confident they felt that COVID-19 will be controlled successfully (OR 2.2, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.03–4.72). Good behavioral practice towards COVID-19 control was confirmed when 87% of students answered that they didn’t go out to any crowded place. Females were 3.6 times (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.03–3.11) more likely to avoid going out than males. Bad behavioral practice became evident when approximately 50% of students admitted that they did not wear masks when they left their house. Therefore, more efforts should be taken to protect future pharmacists from this pandemic. Springer US 2020-06-15 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7295146/ /pubmed/32542552 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10900-020-00859-z Text en © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Hamza, Marwa S. Badary, Osama A. Elmazar, Mohamed M. Cross-Sectional Study on Awareness and Knowledge of COVID-19 Among Senior pharmacy Students |
title | Cross-Sectional Study on Awareness and Knowledge of COVID-19 Among Senior pharmacy Students |
title_full | Cross-Sectional Study on Awareness and Knowledge of COVID-19 Among Senior pharmacy Students |
title_fullStr | Cross-Sectional Study on Awareness and Knowledge of COVID-19 Among Senior pharmacy Students |
title_full_unstemmed | Cross-Sectional Study on Awareness and Knowledge of COVID-19 Among Senior pharmacy Students |
title_short | Cross-Sectional Study on Awareness and Knowledge of COVID-19 Among Senior pharmacy Students |
title_sort | cross-sectional study on awareness and knowledge of covid-19 among senior pharmacy students |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7295146/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32542552 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10900-020-00859-z |
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