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Knowledge, risk-perception, and uptake of COVID-19 prevention measures in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has almost affected the entire globe and is currently in a resurgent phase within the sub-Saharan African region. OBJECTIVE: This paper presents results from a scoping review of literature on knowledge, risk-perception, conspiracy theories and uptake of COVID-19 pre...

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Autores principales: Matovu, Joseph KB, Mulyowa, Alex, Akorimo, Rogers, Kirumira, Daniel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Makerere Medical School 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9993314/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36910342
http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v22i3.59
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Mulyowa, Alex
Akorimo, Rogers
Kirumira, Daniel
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description BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has almost affected the entire globe and is currently in a resurgent phase within the sub-Saharan African region. OBJECTIVE: This paper presents results from a scoping review of literature on knowledge, risk-perception, conspiracy theories and uptake of COVID-19 prevention measures in sub-Saharan Africa. METHODS: We used the following search terms: ‘COVID-19’, ‘knowledge’, ‘perceptions’, ‘perspectives’, ‘misconceptions’, ‘conspiracy theories’, ‘practices’ and ‘sub-Saharan Africa’. Basing on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for scoping reviews (PRISMA-ScR) guidelines, we identified 466 articles for review; 36 articles met the inclusion criteria. We extracted data on knowledge, risk-perception, conspiracy theories and uptake of COVID-19 primary prevention measures. RESULTS: Knowledge of COVID-19 was high (91.3–100%) and associated with age and education; risk-perception was equally high (73.3–86.9%) but varied across studies. Uptake of hand-washing with water and soap or hand-sanitizing ranged between 63–96.4%, but wearing of face masks and social distancing fared poorly (face masks: 2.7%–37%; social distancing: 19–43%). CONCLUSION: While knowledge of COVID-19 is nearly universal, uptake of COVID-19 prevention measures remains sub-optimal to defeat the pandemic. These findings suggest a need for continued health promotion to increase uptake of the recommended COVID-19 prevention measures in sub-Saharan Africa.
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spelling pubmed-99933142023-03-09 Knowledge, risk-perception, and uptake of COVID-19 prevention measures in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review Matovu, Joseph KB Mulyowa, Alex Akorimo, Rogers Kirumira, Daniel Afr Health Sci Articles BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has almost affected the entire globe and is currently in a resurgent phase within the sub-Saharan African region. OBJECTIVE: This paper presents results from a scoping review of literature on knowledge, risk-perception, conspiracy theories and uptake of COVID-19 prevention measures in sub-Saharan Africa. METHODS: We used the following search terms: ‘COVID-19’, ‘knowledge’, ‘perceptions’, ‘perspectives’, ‘misconceptions’, ‘conspiracy theories’, ‘practices’ and ‘sub-Saharan Africa’. Basing on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for scoping reviews (PRISMA-ScR) guidelines, we identified 466 articles for review; 36 articles met the inclusion criteria. We extracted data on knowledge, risk-perception, conspiracy theories and uptake of COVID-19 primary prevention measures. RESULTS: Knowledge of COVID-19 was high (91.3–100%) and associated with age and education; risk-perception was equally high (73.3–86.9%) but varied across studies. Uptake of hand-washing with water and soap or hand-sanitizing ranged between 63–96.4%, but wearing of face masks and social distancing fared poorly (face masks: 2.7%–37%; social distancing: 19–43%). CONCLUSION: While knowledge of COVID-19 is nearly universal, uptake of COVID-19 prevention measures remains sub-optimal to defeat the pandemic. These findings suggest a need for continued health promotion to increase uptake of the recommended COVID-19 prevention measures in sub-Saharan Africa. Makerere Medical School 2022-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9993314/ /pubmed/36910342 http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v22i3.59 Text en © 2022 Matovu JKB et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee African Health Sciences. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Knowledge, risk-perception, and uptake of COVID-19 prevention measures in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9993314/
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