A Comparative Study on the knowledge and attitude of COVID-19 among Urban and Rural populations of Bangladesh

  1. Md. Kamal Hossain RİPON
  2. Noor Muhammad KHAN
  3. A E M Adnan KHAN
  4. Rana AHMED
  5. Safia AFRİN
  6. Md Abu SAYEED
  7. Md. Mizanur Rahman MOGHAL

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Abstract

Objective: This study is aimed to identify the awareness and behavioral perspective on COVID-19 between urban and rural people of Bangladesh during the period of outbreak. Methods: A community-based cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in 30 districts of Bangladesh, where 322 participants from urban and 312 from rural area. Participants were selected through convenience sampling. Results: Rural people are found to be much more inter connected to receive information from neighbor. Regarding the incubation periods and the general symptoms, knowledge differs significantly from urban to rural. Even their precautionary and transmission knowledge is found to associate in most of the cases. During this outbreak, urban people significantly increase their religious habits and also believe that there will some major change of life after outbreak. Conclusion: The descriptive study reflected that health education program needed to aware about COVID-19 in both urban and rural in Bangladesh that helps in formulating and executing communication and outbreak management.

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  1. Version published to 10.20518/tjph.860245
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    On the other hand, the limitation of our study, we can’t include survivor in this study because survivor wasn’t available at that time. Our recommendation to conduct similar studies in different developing countries in the world for more evidence for the management of pandemic because rural people is less advanced in different perspectives than urban people. COVID-19 is now a pandemic and the situation are like time bomb as no medical treatment is too much effective and no proper vaccine yet discovered. Bangladesh become a highest worse condition regarding this infectious disease in the world due to overpopulated and lack of awareness. In this circumstance only people’s awareness in Bangladesh can help to protect us. This cross-sectional study was carried out to identify the awareness and behavioral perspective on COVID-19 between urban and rural people. Awareness regarding COVID-19 was unsatisfactory in rural residents as compared to urban. Based on the results of our study, we can conclude that improvement of COVID-19 knowledge, attitudes and promotion of awareness among residents by effective health education programs is needed especial care needed in rural areas. Our belief this survey will provide valuable information to the legislators regarding the perceptions of urban and rural population for the management of pandemic.

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