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Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Toward COVID-19 in a Saudi Arabian Population: A Cross-Sectional Study

Background Preventative measures are necessary to control a pandemic such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and different platforms to communicate guidelines have varying levels of effectiveness. Objective At the time of this study, there were no published studies investigating knowledge, atti...

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Autores principales: Almofada, Sarah K, Alherbisch, Reem J, Almuhraj, Nouf A, Almeshary, Bander N, Alrabiah, Bader, Al Saffan, Abdulrahman, Baseer, Mohammad A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7331923/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32637289
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8905
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author Almofada, Sarah K
Alherbisch, Reem J
Almuhraj, Nouf A
Almeshary, Bander N
Alrabiah, Bader
Al Saffan, Abdulrahman
Baseer, Mohammad A
author_facet Almofada, Sarah K
Alherbisch, Reem J
Almuhraj, Nouf A
Almeshary, Bander N
Alrabiah, Bader
Al Saffan, Abdulrahman
Baseer, Mohammad A
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description Background Preventative measures are necessary to control a pandemic such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and different platforms to communicate guidelines have varying levels of effectiveness. Objective At the time of this study, there were no published studies investigating knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to COVID-19 within the Saudi population. Therefore, this study aims to address this gap in current knowledge and provide baseline data to the government and other health associations for preventive measurements for future outbreaks. Methods This study was conducted among the Saudi population using an online questionnaire. The questionnaire assessed the awareness of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) incubation period, the known symptoms of COVID-19, the mode of transmission of SARS-CoV-2, and infection control measures for prevention. Results The study included 6000 participants. Most respondents (84.93%) of the population reported awareness of the virus, 78.78% reported a belief that the virus leads to death, 89.47% reported a belief that 14 days is the incubation period, and 93.73% were aware of the possibility of asymptomatic carriers. Conclusions The Saudi population is aware of the attitudes and practices of prevention as well as the mode of transmission. The efforts by the Ministry of Health were effective in increasing awareness among the Saudi population toward COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-73319232020-07-06 Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Toward COVID-19 in a Saudi Arabian Population: A Cross-Sectional Study Almofada, Sarah K Alherbisch, Reem J Almuhraj, Nouf A Almeshary, Bander N Alrabiah, Bader Al Saffan, Abdulrahman Baseer, Mohammad A Cureus Medical Education Background Preventative measures are necessary to control a pandemic such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and different platforms to communicate guidelines have varying levels of effectiveness. Objective At the time of this study, there were no published studies investigating knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to COVID-19 within the Saudi population. Therefore, this study aims to address this gap in current knowledge and provide baseline data to the government and other health associations for preventive measurements for future outbreaks. Methods This study was conducted among the Saudi population using an online questionnaire. The questionnaire assessed the awareness of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) incubation period, the known symptoms of COVID-19, the mode of transmission of SARS-CoV-2, and infection control measures for prevention. Results The study included 6000 participants. Most respondents (84.93%) of the population reported awareness of the virus, 78.78% reported a belief that the virus leads to death, 89.47% reported a belief that 14 days is the incubation period, and 93.73% were aware of the possibility of asymptomatic carriers. Conclusions The Saudi population is aware of the attitudes and practices of prevention as well as the mode of transmission. The efforts by the Ministry of Health were effective in increasing awareness among the Saudi population toward COVID-19. Cureus 2020-06-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7331923/ /pubmed/32637289 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8905 Text en Copyright © 2020, Almofada et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Almofada, Sarah K
Alherbisch, Reem J
Almuhraj, Nouf A
Almeshary, Bander N
Alrabiah, Bader
Al Saffan, Abdulrahman
Baseer, Mohammad A
Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Toward COVID-19 in a Saudi Arabian Population: A Cross-Sectional Study
title Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Toward COVID-19 in a Saudi Arabian Population: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_full Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Toward COVID-19 in a Saudi Arabian Population: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_fullStr Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Toward COVID-19 in a Saudi Arabian Population: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_full_unstemmed Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Toward COVID-19 in a Saudi Arabian Population: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_short Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Toward COVID-19 in a Saudi Arabian Population: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_sort knowledge, attitudes, and practices toward covid-19 in a saudi arabian population: a cross-sectional study
topic Medical Education
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7331923/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32637289
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8905
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