Original Research Article
Year: 2020 | Month: July | Volume: 10 | Issue: 7 | Pages: 123-129
Knowledge and Perception of Health Professionals towards COVID-19
Hemant Kumar1, Mandeep Singh Khurana2, Gopal Singh Charan3, Narendra Kumar Sharma4
1Nursing Officer, PGIMER, Chandigarh,
2Professor, Department of Pediatric, SGRDIMSR, Amritsar
3Associate Professor, SGRD College of Nursing, SGRDIMSR, Amritsar
4Nursing Officer, AIIMS, New Delhi
Corresponding Author: Hemant Kumar
ABSTRACT
Coronavirus disease is an emerging public health concern globally. Due to rapid spread and alarming incidences of COVID-19 cases, we intended to explore the knowledge and perception of health professionals. Objective of study to assess the knowledge and perception of health professionals through a web based study using voluntary sampling technique. Respondents were almost equal gender wise classified. Around 50% of participants had good knowledge about COVID-19 disease. The mean knowledge score was 18.49±4.257. In this study perception of health professional towards COVID-19; nearly half of them 49.2% had positive, followed by 35.3% had negative and 15.5% had neutral perception.The present study found significant association of knowledge with gender (p=0.002), occupation (p=.001), years of service(p=.001), Job (p=.001), heard about COVID-19 (p=.001) and source of information about COVID-19 (p=.001) at 5% p value. This study found insignificant association of perception with all demographic variables at 5% p value.
Key words: Coronavirus, COVID-19, Knowledge, Perception, Health professionals