Journal of Pierre Fauchard Academy (India Section)

Haritma Nigam ¹, Takshil D. Shah ², Sudhanshu Bhardwaj ³, Pravin Parmar ⁴, Aasif Raza ⁵, Sandhya Saware ⁶

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

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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