Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices Towards COVID-19 Among Social Workers of Bangladesh

This study intended to evaluate the knowledge, attitude, and practices (KAP) toward the pandemic among the social workers of Bangladesh. Approximately 94% of them faced challenges working during COVID-19. They lacked knowledge regarding COVID-19 (0.62 ± 0.25). They also did not show enough practice....

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Autores principales: Rahman, Md Mostafizur, Sakib, Mohammed Sadman, Rahman, Afra Sayara, Haque, Md. Iftekharul, Hossain, Md. Tanvir, Islam, Md. Robiul
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9972300/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11115-022-00679-w
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author Rahman, Md Mostafizur
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description This study intended to evaluate the knowledge, attitude, and practices (KAP) toward the pandemic among the social workers of Bangladesh. Approximately 94% of them faced challenges working during COVID-19. They lacked knowledge regarding COVID-19 (0.62 ± 0.25). They also did not show enough practice. Attitudes were better than knowledge and practices. Respondents' gender, location, having vulnerable people at the home, educational attainment, and experiencing COVID-19 symptoms before were significantly associated with the overall KAP. In general, COVID-19 preparedness and response campaigns, and effective education, are required to ensure the competence of pandemic responses among this vital group.
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spelling pubmed-99723002023-02-28 Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices Towards COVID-19 Among Social Workers of Bangladesh Rahman, Md Mostafizur Sakib, Mohammed Sadman Rahman, Afra Sayara Haque, Md. Iftekharul Hossain, Md. Tanvir Islam, Md. Robiul Public Organiz Rev Article This study intended to evaluate the knowledge, attitude, and practices (KAP) toward the pandemic among the social workers of Bangladesh. Approximately 94% of them faced challenges working during COVID-19. They lacked knowledge regarding COVID-19 (0.62 ± 0.25). They also did not show enough practice. Attitudes were better than knowledge and practices. Respondents' gender, location, having vulnerable people at the home, educational attainment, and experiencing COVID-19 symptoms before were significantly associated with the overall KAP. In general, COVID-19 preparedness and response campaigns, and effective education, are required to ensure the competence of pandemic responses among this vital group. Springer US 2023-02-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9972300/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11115-022-00679-w Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2023, Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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