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Protective measures are associated with the reduction of transmission of COVID-19 in Bangladesh: A nationwide cross-sectional study
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has become a major public health issue globally. Preventive health measures against COVID-19 can reduce the health burden significantly by containing the transmission. A few research have been undertaken on the effectiveness of preventive strategies such...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8608304/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34807962 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260287 |
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author | Sharif, Nadim Alzahrani, Khalid J. Ahmed, Shamsun Nahar Opu, Rubayet Rayhan Ahmed, Nayan Talukder, Aeken Nunia, Raju Chowdhury, Mysha Samiha Nodi, Israt Jahan Saha, Tama Zhang, Ming Dey, Shuvra Kanti |
author_facet | Sharif, Nadim Alzahrani, Khalid J. Ahmed, Shamsun Nahar Opu, Rubayet Rayhan Ahmed, Nayan Talukder, Aeken Nunia, Raju Chowdhury, Mysha Samiha Nodi, Israt Jahan Saha, Tama Zhang, Ming Dey, Shuvra Kanti |
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description | Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has become a major public health issue globally. Preventive health measures against COVID-19 can reduce the health burden significantly by containing the transmission. A few research have been undertaken on the effectiveness of preventive strategies such as mask use, hand washing, and keeping social distance in preventing COVID-19 transmission. The main aim of this study was to determine the association of the preventive measures with the reduction of transmission of COVID-19 among people. Data was collected during January 06, 2021 to May 10, 2021 from 1690 participants in Bangladesh. A validated questionnaire was used to collect both the online and offline data. Chi-square test and logistic regression analyses were performed to determine the association among the variables. The prevalence of COVID-19 was 11.5% (195 of 1690) among the population. Age, gender, occupation and monthly income of the participants were significantly associated with the likelihood of following the preventive measures. The risk of infection and death reduced significantly among the participants following preventive measures (p = .001). The odds of incidence was lower among the participants using masks properly (OR: 0.02, 95% CI: 0.01–0.43), maintaining social distances (OR: 0.04, 95% CI: 0.01–0.33), avoiding crowded places (OR: 0.07, 95% CI: 0.02–0.19) and hand shaking (OR: 0.17, 95% CI: 0.09–0.41). This study suggests that preventive health measures are significantly associated with the reduction of the risk of infection of COVID-19. Findings from this study will help the policymakers to take appropriate steps to curb the health burden of COVID-19. |
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spelling | pubmed-86083042021-11-23 Protective measures are associated with the reduction of transmission of COVID-19 in Bangladesh: A nationwide cross-sectional study Sharif, Nadim Alzahrani, Khalid J. Ahmed, Shamsun Nahar Opu, Rubayet Rayhan Ahmed, Nayan Talukder, Aeken Nunia, Raju Chowdhury, Mysha Samiha Nodi, Israt Jahan Saha, Tama Zhang, Ming Dey, Shuvra Kanti PLoS One Research Article Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has become a major public health issue globally. Preventive health measures against COVID-19 can reduce the health burden significantly by containing the transmission. A few research have been undertaken on the effectiveness of preventive strategies such as mask use, hand washing, and keeping social distance in preventing COVID-19 transmission. The main aim of this study was to determine the association of the preventive measures with the reduction of transmission of COVID-19 among people. Data was collected during January 06, 2021 to May 10, 2021 from 1690 participants in Bangladesh. A validated questionnaire was used to collect both the online and offline data. Chi-square test and logistic regression analyses were performed to determine the association among the variables. The prevalence of COVID-19 was 11.5% (195 of 1690) among the population. Age, gender, occupation and monthly income of the participants were significantly associated with the likelihood of following the preventive measures. The risk of infection and death reduced significantly among the participants following preventive measures (p = .001). The odds of incidence was lower among the participants using masks properly (OR: 0.02, 95% CI: 0.01–0.43), maintaining social distances (OR: 0.04, 95% CI: 0.01–0.33), avoiding crowded places (OR: 0.07, 95% CI: 0.02–0.19) and hand shaking (OR: 0.17, 95% CI: 0.09–0.41). This study suggests that preventive health measures are significantly associated with the reduction of the risk of infection of COVID-19. Findings from this study will help the policymakers to take appropriate steps to curb the health burden of COVID-19. Public Library of Science 2021-11-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8608304/ /pubmed/34807962 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260287 Text en https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/This is an open access article, free of all copyright, and may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose. The work is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) public domain dedication. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Sharif, Nadim Alzahrani, Khalid J. Ahmed, Shamsun Nahar Opu, Rubayet Rayhan Ahmed, Nayan Talukder, Aeken Nunia, Raju Chowdhury, Mysha Samiha Nodi, Israt Jahan Saha, Tama Zhang, Ming Dey, Shuvra Kanti Protective measures are associated with the reduction of transmission of COVID-19 in Bangladesh: A nationwide cross-sectional study |
title | Protective measures are associated with the reduction of transmission of COVID-19 in Bangladesh: A nationwide cross-sectional study |
title_full | Protective measures are associated with the reduction of transmission of COVID-19 in Bangladesh: A nationwide cross-sectional study |
title_fullStr | Protective measures are associated with the reduction of transmission of COVID-19 in Bangladesh: A nationwide cross-sectional study |
title_full_unstemmed | Protective measures are associated with the reduction of transmission of COVID-19 in Bangladesh: A nationwide cross-sectional study |
title_short | Protective measures are associated with the reduction of transmission of COVID-19 in Bangladesh: A nationwide cross-sectional study |
title_sort | protective measures are associated with the reduction of transmission of covid-19 in bangladesh: a nationwide cross-sectional study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8608304/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34807962 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260287 |
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