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Awareness, Attitude & Knowledge of COVID-19 amongst North Indian Population: Mirror of an Outburst Scenario


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1 Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Pacific Dental College and Research Center, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India
2 Department of Prosthodontics, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad - 380013, Gujarat, India
3 Private Practioner, Periodontology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
4 Department of Dentistry, SMIMER Medical College, Surat, Gujarat, India
5 Dental Surgeon, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Jharkhand, India
6 Private Practitioner, Prosthodontics, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
     

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Context: In the current era, the evolving pathogen, CoVs was originated anonymously in a patient suffering from pneumonia in Wuhan in December 2019 has drawn implausible care around the world. Aim: Its aim was to assess the knowledge, attitudes and degree of awareness among the North India population of different ages towards COVID-19 through a well-formatted questionnaire. Methods and Materials: A cross-sectional study of 384 participants enlisted from various places was conducted through an effective and dependable questionnaire including socio demographic and COVID-19 knowledge data in the population of Northern India. Statistical Analysis Used: ONE-WAY ANOVA test was used to illustrate statistical differences and result came as significant at (p<0.05). Result: Maximum participants were males (52%) of age 40-59 years (39%); secondary passed (12%) and people working in a private sector (12%). Conclusion: Due to collaboration of all the sources as social media, television, newspaper and health related advertisement public was having good knowledge about COVID-19.

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COVID-19, pneumonia, Wuhan.
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Authors

Haritma Nigam
Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Pacific Dental College and Research Center, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India
Takshil D. Shah
Department of Prosthodontics, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad - 380013, Gujarat, India
Sudhanshu Bhardwaj
Private Practioner, Periodontology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
Pravin Parmar
Department of Dentistry, SMIMER Medical College, Surat, Gujarat, India
Aasif Raza
Dental Surgeon, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Jharkhand, India
Sandhya Saware
Private Practitioner, Prosthodontics, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Abstract


Context: In the current era, the evolving pathogen, CoVs was originated anonymously in a patient suffering from pneumonia in Wuhan in December 2019 has drawn implausible care around the world. Aim: Its aim was to assess the knowledge, attitudes and degree of awareness among the North India population of different ages towards COVID-19 through a well-formatted questionnaire. Methods and Materials: A cross-sectional study of 384 participants enlisted from various places was conducted through an effective and dependable questionnaire including socio demographic and COVID-19 knowledge data in the population of Northern India. Statistical Analysis Used: ONE-WAY ANOVA test was used to illustrate statistical differences and result came as significant at (p<0.05). Result: Maximum participants were males (52%) of age 40-59 years (39%); secondary passed (12%) and people working in a private sector (12%). Conclusion: Due to collaboration of all the sources as social media, television, newspaper and health related advertisement public was having good knowledge about COVID-19.

Keywords


COVID-19, pneumonia, Wuhan.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18311/jpfa%2F2020%2F25242