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Knowledge, Practice, and Perception of Barriers Regarding COVID‑19 among Egyptian Health care Workers

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Last updated: 05 Jan 2025

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Background: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was characterized as the etiology for a cluster of pneumonia cases that spread rapidly, causing considerable morbidity and mortality worldwide. By April 2021, more than 2,996,791 deaths were reported globally. Proper updated infection control protocol for Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) must be provided to every health care facility. Objectives: To evaluate the knowledge, attitude, perception of barriers, and practices among Egyptian health care workers (HCWs) regarding COVID-19 disease. Methodology: A cross-sectional study using an online questionnaire through a link shared on social networking sites was conducted on 480 HCWs from different regions in Egypt. Results: This assessment included a sample of 480 HCWs. The total knowledge score was (19.95±2.4). Satisfactory knowledge was reported among 60%. Total attitude score was (18.1±3.7) with positive attitude being reported among 23.3%. Total practice score was (10.6±1.1) and good practice was reported among 89.2%. Conclusion: There were satisfactory knowledge and practice with a low positive attitude regarding COVID-19 which requires more efforts to improve precautionary measures and training programs in hospitals.

Keywords

COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Knowledge, Practice, barriers

Authors

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Sakr

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Suez University, Egypt

Email

msakr.md@gmail.com

City

Suez

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Volume

30

Article Issue

3

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26926

Issue Date

2021-07-01

Receive Date

2021-05-04

Publish Date

2021-07-11

Page Start

163

Page End

171

Print ISSN

1110-2179

Online ISSN

2537-0979

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EJMM_Volume 30_Issue 3_Pages 163-171.pdf

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New and original researches in the field of Microbiology.

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2,038

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Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Medical Microbiology

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https://ejmm.journals.ekb.eg/

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Knowledge, Practice, and Perception of Barriers Regarding COVID‑19 among Egyptian Health care Workers

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23 Jan 2023