Knowledge, attitude, and practice survey regarding coronavirus disease 2019 among residents in Hunan Province

To evaluate residents' knowledge, attitude and behavior towards coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Hunan Province, and to explore the factors influencing behaviors. A self-designed questionnaire was used to conduct an online survey for 4 139 Hunan residents. The contents included general po...

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Veröffentlicht in:Zhong nan da xue xue bao. Journal of Central South University. Yi xue ban 2020-06, Vol.45 (6), p.665-672
Hauptverfasser: Li, Chunyan, Xu, Jingcan, Yue, Liqing, Shen, Minxue, Dai, Minhui, Liu, Neng
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Sprache:chi ; eng
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Zusammenfassung:To evaluate residents' knowledge, attitude and behavior towards coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Hunan Province, and to explore the factors influencing behaviors. A self-designed questionnaire was used to conduct an online survey for 4 139 Hunan residents. The contents included general population information, residents' knowledge, attitude and practice to COVID-19. Mean scores of knowledge, attitude, and behavior were 29.82±3.16, 6.71±1.12, and 14.93±1.45, respectively. Residents had the highest score of major symptoms of COVID-19 (3.96±0.39), but the lowest was the main transmission routes (3.47±0.89). A total of 22.68% of the residents were very or relatively afraid of the outbreak, but 95.22% of the residents had confidence in defeating COVID-19. In behavior dimension, "handling of suspicious symptoms" had the lowest score (3.58±0.75). The behavior implementation rate of "keep the surfaces of household items clean" (80.50%), "doing more exercise, reasonable diet, working and resting regularly" (84.59%), and "avoid hand contacting with eyes, mouth or nose" (89.51%) were relatively low. Pearson correlation coefficient showed that the knowledge, attitude, and practices score were correlated with each other (knowledge vs behavior: =0.366; knowledge vs attitude: =0.041; attitude vs behavior: =0.100; all
ISSN:1672-7347
DOI:10.11817/j.issn.1672-7347.2020.200277