Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has been affecting all over the world; medical students are a successor force, providing great support to the prevention of the COVID-19 pandemic. Objectives: to assess the completeness of knowledge, attitudes, and practices of COVID19 prevention as well as utilize factors influencing the good practices of medical students at Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy. Materials and methods: A 2-week cross-sectional study (from October 1 to October 15, 2021) was conducted among 729 of 4th and 6th – year medical students at Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy through an online survey with a set of 36 questions. Results: The score of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale was moderately high (17.61±4.55). The percentage of students with good general knowledge (overall score ≥11) was 56.2%. Approximately 97.5% of the participants had positive attitudes about complying with disease prevention measures. There were 94.2% of students had good practices with preventive measures. The study showed that 2 factors related to good practices were good sufficient knowledge and positive attitudes (p<0.05). Students with sufficient knowledge and positive attitudes performed better than students with insufficient knowledge and negative attitudes by 2.4 times (95% confidence interval: 1.18-4.8) and 7.2 times (95% confidence interval: 2.5-21.9), respectively. Conclusions: The majority of students had enough knowledge (56.2%), positive attitudes (97.5%) and good practices (94.2%) in COVID-19 prevention. High FCV-19S, females, sufficient knowledge, and positive attitudes had a significant correlation with good practices.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has been affecting the world seriously and along with the fear of COVID-19, psychological reactions are also becoming more common. In particular, medical students are susceptible to sleep-related problems due to pressure in studying as well as accessing the hospital environment. Objectives: Evaluate the fear of COVID-19 and associated factors among students in Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Materials and methods: A cross-sectional study from October 10 to October 17, 2021 among 816 from third-year to sixth-year medical students in Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy through an online survey via Microsoft form using a structural questionnaire. Results: The average age is 22.58 ± 1.39; in which, male accounts for 43.6% and female 56.4%. There is 47.7% of students participating in the fight against COVID-19 in localities. Regarding accommodation, the majority of students stayed in hostels alone with the rate of 55.4%. There are 2.9% third-year students, 35% fourth-year students, 5.4% five-year students, and 56.6% sixth-year students. The COVID-19 pandemic fear score is quite high (19.07±5.3). The overall average score of the full scale is 2.72±0.75 indicating that students have an average fear of COVID-19. Expressions in the emotional response group is higher in comparison with physiological COVID19 fear response. Female students have higher levels of fear of COVID-19 than male. The difference is statistically significant in mean of FCV-19S by school year, student’s place of residence and participation in COVID-19 pandemic (p<0.05). FCV-19S is positively correlated with students’ sleep quality score with r = 0.08, p = 0.017 (Pearson). Conclusions: The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected the psychophysiology, especially the quality of students’ sleep. There are many factors related to COVID-19 fear such as gender, school year, place of residence and student participation in COVID-19.