Knowledge, attitude, and practices of patient relatives regarding face masks in COVID-19 pandemic: A single-center cross-sectional study
| Autor: | Anirban Das, Preetam Goswami, Pronoy Sen |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Primary Care Specialties, Vol 4, Iss 2, Pp 78-81 (2023) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2772-3615 2772-3623 |
| DOI: | 10.4103/jopcs.jopcs_43_22 |
| Popis: | Objective: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic was declared as a global pandemic on the March 12, 2020. Face masks are recommended to control COVID-19 transmission, whose filtering capability depends on the different materials mask is made of and its structural design. The knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) toward facemasks play an integral role to understand society's readiness to accept and follow preventive guidelines. The main objective was to estimate various factors affecting KAP in the study population and also to calculate the knowledge score (KS) from the data. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted using a questionnaire. The questionnaire consisted of 5, 3, and 5 questions on KAP, respectively. Score of 1 was assigned to the correct response and score of 0 for the incorrect response. Accordingly, score of |
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