212216

Knowledge, Perception and Practice of Children and Adolescents towards COVID-19 Pandemic in Egypt

Article

Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

Subjects

-

Tags

-

Abstract

Background: As research about COVID-19 continues, a lot of facts keep on changing and many myths are also prevalent regarding the prevention and management of the infection. Objective(s): The aim of the present study was to assess the current knowledge, perception and practice towards COVID-19 pandemic among children and adolescents in Egypt. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 512 children and adolescents, aged 6-18 years living in different Egyptian cities, during the first half of July 2020, by an anonymous online questionnaire; designed to assess knowledge, perception and practices of children and adolescents towards COVID-19 disease. Results: The study included 512 participants. The mean age was 13.39 ± 3.24 years and 65.2% were females. About half of the participants perceived the situation in Egypt as bad, and 41.5% as getting worse, 47.7% thought that media is not telling the truth, 6.7% thought people were respecting lockdown, 40.2% had expectations that COVID-19 will end soon and 37.5% expected that they will return to school regularly in the next academic year. The general knowledge was good in 58% and poor in 1.2% of participants. The mode of transmission knowledge was good in 58% and poor in 11.7% of participants. The disease prevention knowledge was good in 68.3% and poor in 9.4% of participants. The practice of participants was good in 16.2% and poor in 11.3%. Overall knowledge and practice significantly improved with increased age. Practice was significantly better in females than in males. Conclusion: Knowledge of children and adolescents about COVID-19 pandemic in Egypt was good, while their practice towards the pandemic was fair. It has shown that good knowledge does not necessarily result in good practice.

DOI

10.21608/jhiph.2022.212216

Keywords

Knowledge, perception, Practice, COVID-19, Adolescents

Authors

First Name

Elham

Last Name

Elsakka

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt

Email

dr.elham.elsakka@alexmed.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

0000-0002-2242-791

First Name

Mona

Last Name

Khalil

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt

Email

drmonakhalil@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

51

Article Issue

3

Related Issue

29898

Issue Date

2021-12-01

Receive Date

2022-01-02

Publish Date

2021-12-01

Page Start

151

Page End

157

Print ISSN

2357-0601

Online ISSN

2357-061X

Link

https://jhiphalexu.journals.ekb.eg/article_212216.html

Detail API

https://jhiphalexu.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=212216

Order

6

Type

Original Article

Type Code

511

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Journal of High Institute of Public Health

Publication Link

https://jhiphalexu.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Knowledge, Perception and Practice of Children and Adolescents towards COVID-19 Pandemic in Egypt

Details

Type

Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023