Knowledge and perceptions about COVID-19 among the medical and allied health science students in India: An online cross-sectional survey
An infection (COVID-19) without any specific cure makes the people more vulnerable to get affected due to insufficient knowledge and unhealthy practices. In this scenario, healthcare students can act as reliable information providers. This study aimed to assess the knowledge and perception about COV...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Clinical epidemiology and global health 2021-01, Vol.9, p.104-109 |
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Zusammenfassung: | An infection (COVID-19) without any specific cure makes the people more vulnerable to get affected due to insufficient knowledge and unhealthy practices. In this scenario, healthcare students can act as reliable information providers. This study aimed to assess the knowledge and perception about COVID-19 among medical and allied health science students.
A web-based cross sectional survey was conducted during February and March 2020. A 24-item survey was developed and randomly distributed among the study population. Descriptive statistics was applied to represent participant characteristics and Chi-square test was used to evaluate the level of association among variables with a significance level of p |
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ISSN: | 2213-3984 2452-0918 2213-3984 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.cegh.2020.07.008 |