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COVID-19 Epidemic in Bangladesh among Rural and Urban Residents: An Online Cross-Sectional Survey of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices

As other nations around the world, Bangladesh is facing enormous challenges with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic. To design a prevention and control strategy for this new infectious disease, it is essential to first understand people’s knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) regarding CO...

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Autores principales: Rahman, Md. Siddikur, Karamehic-Muratovic, Ajlina, Amrin, Miftahuzzannat, Chowdhury, Arman Hossain, Mondol, Md. Selim, Haque, Ubydul, Ali, Parveen
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9620879/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36417185
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/epidemiologia2010001
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author Rahman, Md. Siddikur
Karamehic-Muratovic, Ajlina
Amrin, Miftahuzzannat
Chowdhury, Arman Hossain
Mondol, Md. Selim
Haque, Ubydul
Ali, Parveen
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Karamehic-Muratovic, Ajlina
Amrin, Miftahuzzannat
Chowdhury, Arman Hossain
Mondol, Md. Selim
Haque, Ubydul
Ali, Parveen
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description As other nations around the world, Bangladesh is facing enormous challenges with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic. To design a prevention and control strategy for this new infectious disease, it is essential to first understand people’s knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) regarding COVID-19. This study sought to determine KAP among rural and urban residents as well as predictors of preventive practices associated with COVID-19 in Bangladesh. A social media-based (Facebook) cross-sectional survey was conducted to explore these variables among Bangladeshi adults. Of 1520 respondents who completed the questionnaire, low level of good or sufficient knowledge of COVID-19 (70.8%) and practices associated with COVID-19 (73.8%) were found. Despite the low level of knowledge and practices, respondents’ attitude (78.9%) towards COVID-19 was relatively high. Results suggest that compared to urban, rural residents are at a particularly high risk of COVID-19 because they were found to have significantly lower knowledge (p = 0.001) and practice levels (p = 0.002) than were urban residents. Multivariable logistic regression analysis identified gender, education, knowledge of COVID-19 transmission, signs and symptoms, and sources of information as factors significantly associated with preventive practices against COVID-19. Further attention and effort should be directed toward increasing both knowledge and practices targeting the general population in Bangladesh, particularly the rural and less educated residents. Findings from this study provide baseline data that can be used to promote integrated awareness of and effective health education programs about COVID-19 prevention and control strategies in Bangladesh, and similar COVID-19 endemic countries.
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spelling pubmed-96208792022-11-18 COVID-19 Epidemic in Bangladesh among Rural and Urban Residents: An Online Cross-Sectional Survey of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Rahman, Md. Siddikur Karamehic-Muratovic, Ajlina Amrin, Miftahuzzannat Chowdhury, Arman Hossain Mondol, Md. Selim Haque, Ubydul Ali, Parveen Epidemiologia (Basel) Article As other nations around the world, Bangladesh is facing enormous challenges with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic. To design a prevention and control strategy for this new infectious disease, it is essential to first understand people’s knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) regarding COVID-19. This study sought to determine KAP among rural and urban residents as well as predictors of preventive practices associated with COVID-19 in Bangladesh. A social media-based (Facebook) cross-sectional survey was conducted to explore these variables among Bangladeshi adults. Of 1520 respondents who completed the questionnaire, low level of good or sufficient knowledge of COVID-19 (70.8%) and practices associated with COVID-19 (73.8%) were found. Despite the low level of knowledge and practices, respondents’ attitude (78.9%) towards COVID-19 was relatively high. Results suggest that compared to urban, rural residents are at a particularly high risk of COVID-19 because they were found to have significantly lower knowledge (p = 0.001) and practice levels (p = 0.002) than were urban residents. Multivariable logistic regression analysis identified gender, education, knowledge of COVID-19 transmission, signs and symptoms, and sources of information as factors significantly associated with preventive practices against COVID-19. Further attention and effort should be directed toward increasing both knowledge and practices targeting the general population in Bangladesh, particularly the rural and less educated residents. Findings from this study provide baseline data that can be used to promote integrated awareness of and effective health education programs about COVID-19 prevention and control strategies in Bangladesh, and similar COVID-19 endemic countries. MDPI 2020-12-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9620879/ /pubmed/36417185 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/epidemiologia2010001 Text en © 2020 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ).
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Mondol, Md. Selim
Haque, Ubydul
Ali, Parveen
COVID-19 Epidemic in Bangladesh among Rural and Urban Residents: An Online Cross-Sectional Survey of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices
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title_short COVID-19 Epidemic in Bangladesh among Rural and Urban Residents: An Online Cross-Sectional Survey of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices
title_sort covid-19 epidemic in bangladesh among rural and urban residents: an online cross-sectional survey of knowledge, attitudes, and practices
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9620879/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36417185
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/epidemiologia2010001
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