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knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices towards COVID-19 among Health Care Workers in Primary Health Care Units Dar El Salam, Suhag, Egypt.

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Community Medicine.

Abstract

Abstract
Background: COVID-19 pandemic considered a worldwide and social emergency that requires the application of strict measures to prevent the fast spread of the disease. Health Care Workers (HCWs) compliance to control measures is affected and determined by their Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices (KAP) towards the virus Aim of work: To evaluate the knowledge, attitude and practice among HCWs towards COVID 19 Methods: A cross-sectional study was done To evaluate KAP among HCWs towards COVID 19 the study involve a sample of online Health care staff in which they shared by sending an invitation link across the available social media seeking to react and answer the questionnaire (Survey Monkey tool) was sent Results: The majority of respondents were female 82 (77.4%). Most of them 66 (64.4%) were nurses, 28 (26.4%) were pharmacists and 10 (9.4%) were physicians. Mean age and standard deviation (SD) 30.10 ± 5.25 year. About (79.2%), (84.8%) and (91.7%) of the participants (nurses, pharmacists and physicians) were within the accepted knowledge range respectively. The majority of the HCWs had accepted attitude (78.6% -100%) towards the successful control of COVID-19, majority of the HCWs had healthy practice and preventive measures given by local health care authorities (85.3% - 100% -100%) of the nurses, pharmacists and physicians respectively Conclusion and recommendations: Our results ensured the need to assess the KAP towards COVID-19 among the HCWs (nurses, pharmacists and physicians). This will induce an promising attitude and encourage healthy practice.

DOI

10.21608/smj.2020.47286.1209

Keywords

Keywords: COVID-19, Knowledge, Attitude, Practice, HCWs

Authors

First Name

abdelnaser

Last Name

mohammed

MiddleName

shaibat Elhamd

Affiliation

community medicine department alazhar univirsty assuit

Email

nasirshipa777@yahoo.com

City

sohag

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Volume

25

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

18599

Issue Date

2021-01-01

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2020-10-21

Publish Date

2021-01-01

Page Start

50

Page End

58

Print ISSN

1687-8353

Online ISSN

2682-4159

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Original Article

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785

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Journal

Publication Title

Sohag Medical Journal

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https://smj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Created At

22 Jan 2023