The knowledge and practice towards COVID-19 pandemic prevention among residents of Ethiopia: An Online Cross-Sectional Study
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Abstract
Background
The Novel coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) is now the international concerns and a pandemic, since the World Health Organization declared as the outbreaks. The objective of this study to assess the prevention knowledge and practices towards the COVID-19 among the residents of Ethiopia.
Methods
An online cross-sectional study was conducted among the sample of Ethiopian residents via social platforms of the author’s network with the popular media such as Facebook, in Ethiopia from the April 15-22, 2020 and successfully recruited 341 responses. The snowball sampling was employed to recruit the participants. The data were analyzed using STATA version 14. Descriptive statistics were used to summarize the level of knowledge and practices.
Results
The majority of the respondents (80.35%) were male. The overall prevention knowledge of the participants towards the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was high. About 91.2% of the participant was heard about the novel coronavirus disease and Social Medias’ were the main source of the information. About 90% of the participants had a good prevention knowledge of maintaining social distance and frequent hand washing. The practices of the participants towards the COVID-19 prevention were very low. Out of 341 participants, only 61% and 84% of the participants were practicing social distance and frequent hand washing, respectively.
Conclusions
Majority of the participants had knew the ways of protecting themselves from the novel coronavirus. But, there was deficiencies of changing these prevention knowledge to practice. This indicates that there was gap between knowledge and implementation of prevention strategies in the community. The concerned body should focus on providing education for the community regarding the implementation of the prevention knowledge to practice.
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Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement not detected. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:Strength and limitation of the study: The strength of this study was it is the first study to assess the prevention knowledge and practice of prevention knowledge towards the Novel coronavirus diseases among the residents of …
SciScore for 10.1101/2020.06.01.127381: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement not detected. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:Strength and limitation of the study: The strength of this study was it is the first study to assess the prevention knowledge and practice of prevention knowledge towards the Novel coronavirus diseases among the residents of Ethiopia. There are some limitations to this research. First, questions related to knowledge and practices are not validated. The second and the major limitation of this study was the data collected by an online distribution of the survey through the Social Media and only individual with the access of Social Media and internet can participate in the study and this study cannot represent the overall population of the country. Conclusions: In this study, almost the prevention knowledge of the respondent towards the COVID-19 pandemic was high. But, the practice of the respondents prevention knowledge to the implementation very low and the practices score of the respondent was (mean=3.09), which very low and which indicates that the practices the respondents towards the COVID-19 pandemic was poor. As far as the result of this study shows the respondents had a good prevention knowledge of the COVID-19 pandemic. To tackle the spreads of the COVID-19 pandemic in the community the prevention knowledge of the community should be implemented into the practices and the stakeholders should play their significant contribution by teaching the community in ways to implementing the prevention knowledge to combat the spread of the Novel coronavirus pandemics.
Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
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