COVID-19 Awareness and Its Impact in Rural and Urban Puducherry - A Community Based Cross Sectional Study

Senthil, R.; Kunchithapathan, Balagurunathan; Ramalingam, S; Manivannan, Ponmalar

doi:10.14260/jemds/2020/847

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“…The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in March 2020, caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) ( 1 ). As of August 2021, the number of total cases surpassed 200 million and resulted in more than 4 million deaths.…”

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The Effects of COVID-19 on the Placenta During Pregnancy

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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused a global pandemic. The virus primarily affects the lungs where it induces respiratory distress syndrome ranging from mild to acute, however, there is a growing body of evidence supporting its negative effects on other system organs that also carry the ACE2 receptor, such as the placenta. The majority of newborns delivered from SARS-CoV-2 positive mothers test negative following delivery, suggesting that there are protective mechanisms within the placenta. There appears to be a higher incidence of pregnancy-related complications in SARS-CoV-2 positive mothers, such as miscarriage, restricted fetal growth, or still-birth. In this review, we discuss the pathobiology of COVID-19 maternal infection and the potential adverse effects associated with viral infection, and the possibility of transplacental transmission.

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“…The perception of the study visualizes the psychosocial as well as the economic stresses due to COVID-19 pandemic in India. 8 This study also shows that 79 % of the participants had undergone the psychosocial impact due the pandemic of corona virus. The suffered population has faced problems like, staying away from family members, hunger or no food, missing important social gatherings, failure to seek health care facilities, delay in treatment, etc.…”

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Awareness regarding COVID-19 preventive measures and reasons for non-adherence among people in an urban area of mid-Kerala

Vijayan

Viswambharan²,

Ravindran³

2022

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: COVID-19 pandemic is a major challenge to the entire world. Since it is droplet borne preventive measures can reduce the transmission effectively. So, assessing awareness regarding COVID-19 preventive measures and reason for non-adherence to them will be really helpful.Methods: Data has been collected from 502 patients attending an urban centre of mid-Kerala after obtaining informed written consent.Results: Mean age of study population was 52.96±SD 14.52 years ranging from 18 to 89. Males were 52%. Majority of the participants 467(93%) were aware about COVID-19 preventive measures. The main source of information was television and newspaper. Awareness was less among those with low educational status (90.9%) and among house wives (90.2%). Main reasons for non-adherence were constraints of space for social distancing, 18 (3.6%) forgetting to adhere 28 (5.6%) for avoiding unnecessary touching and not feeling the importance of adherence 10 (2%).Conclusions: Majority of study participants were aware about COVID-19 preventive measures even if a small proportion were not practicing it and were not aware about it. Therefore, along with the measures to tackle the reasons for non-adherence, programmes on health education regarding COVID-19 preventive measures should be planned and implemented focusing on these vulnerable groups for successful prevention of the disease.

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“…A study on awareness regarding COVID infection in Puducherry found awareness level to be about 62.0% with higher percentage in urban area. 13 To halt the ongoing pandemic, the COVID-19 vaccine is considered to be an ideal solution. The COVID-19 pandemic has witnessed several healthcare agencies adopting unprecedented infection prevention and control measures and fast-tracking the vaccine approvals to control the spread of the disease.…”

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Awareness, acceptance, and hesitancy about COVID-19 vaccine among residents of urban and rural health training center field practice area of a medical college at Kolkata: A cross-sectional survey

Sain,

Chattopadhyay,

Haldar

2023

Asian J Med Sci

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Background: Effective vaccination is a successful tool for controlling COVID-19 pandemic, along with other preventive measures. Both intention to get vaccinated and barrier to vaccination played important role in COVID vaccination drive. Aims and Objectives: The present study was conducted to assess awareness, acceptance, and hesitancy about COVID-19 vaccine among the residents of rural and urban area and to assess the factors related to their attitude. Materials and Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional survey was conducted among the adult residents of urban and rural area over 6 months. Total sample size was 400. Simple random sampling technique was adopted to recruit the study participants after obtaining informed verbal consent. This process was continued until the desired number of sample size was attained. Data were compiled after collection and analysis was done. Results: Rural population had significantly higher knowledge of coronavirus and urban population knew prevention of coronavirus infection more. Correct knowledge of COVID vaccine availability was higher among rural people but higher knowledge of vaccine related information was among urban population. Sources of information were mainly from mass media. Vaccine acceptance was more among urban population, but apprehension was significantly higher among urban residents. Higher proportion of urban people was motivated significantly by the healthcare workers as well as self-motivated than their rural counterpart. Conclusion: Targeted interventions could be developed for increasing awareness of disease and availability of COVID-19 vaccines. Population-based vaccination program can decline the trend of the pandemic in long term.

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COVID-19 Awareness and Its Impact in Rural and Urban Puducherry - A Community Based Cross Sectional Study

Cited by 4 publications

References 8 publications

The Effects of COVID-19 on the Placenta During Pregnancy

The Effects of COVID-19 on the Placenta During Pregnancy

Awareness regarding COVID-19 preventive measures and reasons for non-adherence among people in an urban area of mid-Kerala

Awareness, acceptance, and hesitancy about COVID-19 vaccine among residents of urban and rural health training center field practice area of a medical college at Kolkata: A cross-sectional survey

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