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Are Malaysians Ready to Resume the New Norm? Findings From a Nationwide Study
OBJECTIVE: The study aimed to evaluate the knowledge, attitude, and practices toward the prevention of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among the public in Malaysia. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted online among the general public in Malaysia from June 2020 to August 2020 between th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9205470/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35719621 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.823047 |
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author | Suet, Sherilyn Pak Cheng Farrukh, Muhammad Junaid Qi, Hee Mei Saleem, Zikria Salman, Muhammad ur Rahman, Aziz Goh, Khang Wen Ming, Long Chiau |
author_facet | Suet, Sherilyn Pak Cheng Farrukh, Muhammad Junaid Qi, Hee Mei Saleem, Zikria Salman, Muhammad ur Rahman, Aziz Goh, Khang Wen Ming, Long Chiau |
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description | OBJECTIVE: The study aimed to evaluate the knowledge, attitude, and practices toward the prevention of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among the public in Malaysia. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted online among the general public in Malaysia from June 2020 to August 2020 between the second and third wave (Phase 3 of the Recovery Movement Control Order). Participants were conveniently recruited through multiple social media platforms to encourage nationwide participation. A patient-administered questionnaire was used to assess their knowledge, attitude, and practice toward the prevention of COVID-19. For descriptive analysis, percentage, mean, and standard deviation (SD) were used to report demographic characteristics and knowledge, attitude, and practice scores. For inferential analysis, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation, Spearman's correlation, Chi-square test, and Binary Logistic Regression was used to analyze the study variables' differentiation, association, and correlations. The confidence interval selected for this study was 95%. RESULTS: A total of 420 respondents participated in this survey. The majority of the participants (n = 412, 98%) were aware of COVID-19. Most participants (60%) learned about the pandemic through social media. About half of the participants had poor knowledge (45.5%) and a negative attitude (43.3%). Participants residing in urban areas showed good preventive practices as compared to those residing in rural areas (P < 0.05). There was a significant association between participants' attitudes and preventive practices toward COVID-19, where the majority of the participants (57.4%) who showed negative attitudes were more likely to follow poor preventive practices. CONCLUSION: Despite having good knowledge, participants with a negative attitude toward COVID-19 were less likely to follow the preventive practices of COVID-19. People's mindset and willingness may play an important role to influence their practices. Thus, these are the vulnerable groups, and strategies should be made to change their mindset through proper counseling and education. |
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spelling | pubmed-92054702022-06-18 Are Malaysians Ready to Resume the New Norm? Findings From a Nationwide Study Suet, Sherilyn Pak Cheng Farrukh, Muhammad Junaid Qi, Hee Mei Saleem, Zikria Salman, Muhammad ur Rahman, Aziz Goh, Khang Wen Ming, Long Chiau Front Public Health Public Health OBJECTIVE: The study aimed to evaluate the knowledge, attitude, and practices toward the prevention of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among the public in Malaysia. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted online among the general public in Malaysia from June 2020 to August 2020 between the second and third wave (Phase 3 of the Recovery Movement Control Order). Participants were conveniently recruited through multiple social media platforms to encourage nationwide participation. A patient-administered questionnaire was used to assess their knowledge, attitude, and practice toward the prevention of COVID-19. For descriptive analysis, percentage, mean, and standard deviation (SD) were used to report demographic characteristics and knowledge, attitude, and practice scores. For inferential analysis, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation, Spearman's correlation, Chi-square test, and Binary Logistic Regression was used to analyze the study variables' differentiation, association, and correlations. The confidence interval selected for this study was 95%. RESULTS: A total of 420 respondents participated in this survey. The majority of the participants (n = 412, 98%) were aware of COVID-19. Most participants (60%) learned about the pandemic through social media. About half of the participants had poor knowledge (45.5%) and a negative attitude (43.3%). Participants residing in urban areas showed good preventive practices as compared to those residing in rural areas (P < 0.05). There was a significant association between participants' attitudes and preventive practices toward COVID-19, where the majority of the participants (57.4%) who showed negative attitudes were more likely to follow poor preventive practices. CONCLUSION: Despite having good knowledge, participants with a negative attitude toward COVID-19 were less likely to follow the preventive practices of COVID-19. People's mindset and willingness may play an important role to influence their practices. Thus, these are the vulnerable groups, and strategies should be made to change their mindset through proper counseling and education. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-06-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9205470/ /pubmed/35719621 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.823047 Text en Copyright © 2022 Suet, Farrukh, Qi, Saleem, Salman, ur Rahman, Goh and Ming. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Suet, Sherilyn Pak Cheng Farrukh, Muhammad Junaid Qi, Hee Mei Saleem, Zikria Salman, Muhammad ur Rahman, Aziz Goh, Khang Wen Ming, Long Chiau Are Malaysians Ready to Resume the New Norm? Findings From a Nationwide Study |
title | Are Malaysians Ready to Resume the New Norm? Findings From a Nationwide Study |
title_full | Are Malaysians Ready to Resume the New Norm? Findings From a Nationwide Study |
title_fullStr | Are Malaysians Ready to Resume the New Norm? Findings From a Nationwide Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Are Malaysians Ready to Resume the New Norm? Findings From a Nationwide Study |
title_short | Are Malaysians Ready to Resume the New Norm? Findings From a Nationwide Study |
title_sort | are malaysians ready to resume the new norm? findings from a nationwide study |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9205470/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35719621 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.823047 |
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