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Knowledge, attitude and practice of the Sudanese people towards COVID-19: an online survey
BACKGROUND: The Novel Corona virus SARS-CoV-2 emerged to affect the human population in 2019 causing COVID-19 pandemic. The only preventive measures available are social distancing, hand washing and face masks. This study aims to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of the Sudanese people tow...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7856621/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33535995 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10319-5 |
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author | Mohamed, Amal Abdelrahim Osman Elhassan, Eilaf Ali Mohamed Mohamed, Abdelrahim Osman Mohammed, Awab Aldow edris, Hassan Alshaikh Mahgoop, Mohamed Alhadi Sharif, Mohamed Emadaldin Bashir, Maab Imadeldin Abdelrahim, Rania Bashir Idriss, Wegdan Ibraheim Malik, Elfatih Mohamed |
author_facet | Mohamed, Amal Abdelrahim Osman Elhassan, Eilaf Ali Mohamed Mohamed, Abdelrahim Osman Mohammed, Awab Aldow edris, Hassan Alshaikh Mahgoop, Mohamed Alhadi Sharif, Mohamed Emadaldin Bashir, Maab Imadeldin Abdelrahim, Rania Bashir Idriss, Wegdan Ibraheim Malik, Elfatih Mohamed |
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description | BACKGROUND: The Novel Corona virus SARS-CoV-2 emerged to affect the human population in 2019 causing COVID-19 pandemic. The only preventive measures available are social distancing, hand washing and face masks. This study aims to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of the Sudanese people towards COVID-19. METHODS: An online cross-sectional study targeting adult Sudanese people was conducted in April 2020. The study used a self-administered questionnaire containing 18 knowledge questions, 5 questions for attitude and six questions for practices. Social media such as Facebook and WhatsApp were utilized to disseminate the questionnaire. The total number of eligible questionnaires available for analysis by the end of the period was 987. RESULTS: The mean (±SD) age of respondents was 30.13 (±9.84) years with males representing 55.4%. The majority were university and higher education levels (95.2%), residing in Khartoum (71.7%). The mean (±SD) knowledge score of the participants was 15.33 (± 2.24) and was found to be associated with education level and age groups (p-value = 0.022, P value =0.010) respectively. The mean (±SD) attitude score was 04.15 (± 0.97) and was significantly associated with older groups and better-educated participants (p-value =0.001, p-value = 0.048) respectively. The practices related to COVID-19 preventive measures mean (±SD) was 02.58 (± 1.73) with a significant difference between age groups and area of residence. CONCLUSIONS: This study showed that the participants had good knowledge and satisfactory attitude that was not similarly expressed into practice. Efforts are needed in health education and law enforcement to improve the practices among all groups with special emphasis on younger and less educated males. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-021-10319-5. |
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spelling | pubmed-78566212021-02-03 Knowledge, attitude and practice of the Sudanese people towards COVID-19: an online survey Mohamed, Amal Abdelrahim Osman Elhassan, Eilaf Ali Mohamed Mohamed, Abdelrahim Osman Mohammed, Awab Aldow edris, Hassan Alshaikh Mahgoop, Mohamed Alhadi Sharif, Mohamed Emadaldin Bashir, Maab Imadeldin Abdelrahim, Rania Bashir Idriss, Wegdan Ibraheim Malik, Elfatih Mohamed BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: The Novel Corona virus SARS-CoV-2 emerged to affect the human population in 2019 causing COVID-19 pandemic. The only preventive measures available are social distancing, hand washing and face masks. This study aims to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of the Sudanese people towards COVID-19. METHODS: An online cross-sectional study targeting adult Sudanese people was conducted in April 2020. The study used a self-administered questionnaire containing 18 knowledge questions, 5 questions for attitude and six questions for practices. Social media such as Facebook and WhatsApp were utilized to disseminate the questionnaire. The total number of eligible questionnaires available for analysis by the end of the period was 987. RESULTS: The mean (±SD) age of respondents was 30.13 (±9.84) years with males representing 55.4%. The majority were university and higher education levels (95.2%), residing in Khartoum (71.7%). The mean (±SD) knowledge score of the participants was 15.33 (± 2.24) and was found to be associated with education level and age groups (p-value = 0.022, P value =0.010) respectively. The mean (±SD) attitude score was 04.15 (± 0.97) and was significantly associated with older groups and better-educated participants (p-value =0.001, p-value = 0.048) respectively. The practices related to COVID-19 preventive measures mean (±SD) was 02.58 (± 1.73) with a significant difference between age groups and area of residence. CONCLUSIONS: This study showed that the participants had good knowledge and satisfactory attitude that was not similarly expressed into practice. Efforts are needed in health education and law enforcement to improve the practices among all groups with special emphasis on younger and less educated males. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-021-10319-5. BioMed Central 2021-02-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7856621/ /pubmed/33535995 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10319-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Mohamed, Amal Abdelrahim Osman Elhassan, Eilaf Ali Mohamed Mohamed, Abdelrahim Osman Mohammed, Awab Aldow edris, Hassan Alshaikh Mahgoop, Mohamed Alhadi Sharif, Mohamed Emadaldin Bashir, Maab Imadeldin Abdelrahim, Rania Bashir Idriss, Wegdan Ibraheim Malik, Elfatih Mohamed Knowledge, attitude and practice of the Sudanese people towards COVID-19: an online survey |
title | Knowledge, attitude and practice of the Sudanese people towards COVID-19: an online survey |
title_full | Knowledge, attitude and practice of the Sudanese people towards COVID-19: an online survey |
title_fullStr | Knowledge, attitude and practice of the Sudanese people towards COVID-19: an online survey |
title_full_unstemmed | Knowledge, attitude and practice of the Sudanese people towards COVID-19: an online survey |
title_short | Knowledge, attitude and practice of the Sudanese people towards COVID-19: an online survey |
title_sort | knowledge, attitude and practice of the sudanese people towards covid-19: an online survey |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7856621/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33535995 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10319-5 |
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