Knowledge and preventive practice to COVID-19 among household heads in Enugu metropolis South-East Nigeria

Nwonwu, Elizabeth Uzoamaka; Ossai, Edmund Ndudi; Umeokonkwo, Chukwuma David; Ituma, Ituma Bernard

doi:10.11604/pamj.2020.37.63.23986

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“…The included studies were all conducted in sub-Saharan Africa and published in 2020. Ten of the studies were conducted in Ethiopia [10,12,[29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36], eight in Nigeria [37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44], three in Cameroon [45][46][47], two in Uganda [9,48], one each in Rwanda [49], Ghana [50], Democratic Republic of Congo [51], Sudan [52], and Sierra Leone [53], (Fig 2). A total number of 14,353 study participants were reported in the included studies, with over half (51%) of them being males.…”

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“…Participants in fifteen studies had a good attitude/perception [29, 34-37, 41-49, 52], average in five studies [10,12,33,40,53], and low in four studies [9,31,38,51]. Good preventative practice towards COVID-19 was found in twelve studies [9, 30, 36-38, 42, 43, 45, 46, 49, 50, 52], average in six [10,12,29,39,48,53], and low in other six studies [31-33, 35, 47, 51]. Thirteen of the included studies were from the Eastern African region of SSA, with Ethiopia [10,12,[29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36], Uganda [9,48] and Rwanda [49] accounting for ten, two and one, respectively, whereas West Africa contributed ten studies, with eight being from Nigeria [37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44], one from Ghana [50], and one from Sierra Leone [53].…”

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“…Good preventative practice towards COVID-19 was found in twelve studies [9, 30, 36-38, 42, 43, 45, 46, 49, 50, 52], average in six [10,12,29,39,48,53], and low in other six studies [31-33, 35, 47, 51]. Thirteen of the included studies were from the Eastern African region of SSA, with Ethiopia [10,12,[29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36], Uganda [9,48] and Rwanda [49] accounting for ten, two and one, respectively, whereas West Africa contributed ten studies, with eight being from Nigeria [37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44], one from Ghana [50], and one from Sierra Leone [53]. A total of four studies were from the Central Africa, with one and three representing the Democratic Republic of Congo [51], and Cameroon [45][46][47], respectively.…”

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“…Practice towards COVID-19. Fifteen studies showed that participants had good practices towards COVID-19 [9, 30, 32, 36-38, 42-45, 48-50, 52, 53], while six studies showed poor practice towards COVID-19 [10,29,31,33,35,39]. A study conducted in Cameroon reported that two months after the onset of the pandemic, the participants showed improvement in their practices towards COVID-19 and the percentage of participants who obtained face masks and hand sanitizers for their safety was substantially higher compared to the percentage at the onset of the pandemic [46].…”

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Knowledge, attitude, perception, and preventative practices towards COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review

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Background Knowledge, attitudes, perception, and preventative practices regarding coronavirus- 2019 (COVID-19) are crucial in its prevention and control. Several studies have noted that the majority of people in sub-Saharan African are noncompliant with proposed health and safety measures recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) and respective country health departments. In most sub-Saharan African countries, noncompliance is attributable to ignorance and misinformation, thereby raising questions about people’s knowledge, attitudes, perception, and practices towards COVID-19 in these settings. This situation is particularly of concern for governments and public health experts. Thus, this scoping review is aimed at mapping evidence on the knowledge, attitudes, perceptions, and preventive practices (KAP) towards COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Methods Systematic searches of relevant articles were performed using databases such as the EBSCOhost, PubMed, Science Direct, Google Scholar, the WHO library and grey literature. Arksey and O’Malley’s framework guided the study. The risk of bias for included primary studies was assessed using the Mixed Method Appraisal Tool (MMAT). NVIVO version 10 was used to analyse the data and a thematic content analysis was used to present the review’s narrative account. Results A total of 3037 eligible studies were identified after the database search. Only 28 studies met the inclusion criteria after full article screening and were included for data extraction. Studies included populations from the following SSA countries: Ethiopia, Nigeria, Cameroon, Uganda, Rwanda, Ghana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, and Sierra Leone. All the included studies showed evidence of knowledge related to COVID-19. Eleven studies showed that participants had a positive attitude towards COVID-19, and fifteen studies showed that participants had good practices towards COVID-19. Conclusions Most of the participants had adequate knowledge related to COVID-19. Despite adequate knowledge, the attitude was not always positive, thereby necessitating further education to convey the importance of forming a positive attitude and continuous preventive practice towards reducing contraction and transmission of COVID‐19.

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“…Self-reported mask use estimates in sub-Saharan Africa vary widely, 7-11 and independent observations of mask wearing is limited to one small scale study that estimated mask use in public transit stations through 45 observations in Ghana. 12 Further limiting generalizability of the existing evidence is the increased reliance on web-based surveys, which are simultaneously subject to social desirability bias 13 and selection bias.…”

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Self-Reported Mask Wearing Greatly Exceeds Directly Observed Use: Urgent Need for Policy Intervention in Kenya

Jakubowski

Egger

Nekesa

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BackgroundMany countries in sub-Saharan Africa have so far avoided large outbreaks of COVID-19, perhaps due to the strict lockdown measures that were imposed early in the pandemic. Yet the harsh socio-economic consequences of the lockdowns have led many governments to ease the restrictions in favor of less stringent mitigation strategies. In the absence of concrete plans for widespread vaccination, masks remain one of the few tools available to low-income populations to avoid the spread of SARS-CoV-2 for the foreseeable future.MethodsWe compare mask use data collected through self-reports from phone surveys and direct observations in public spaces from population-representative samples in Ugunja subcounty, a rural setting in Western Kenya. We examine mask use in different situations and compare mask use by gender, age, location, and the riskiness of the activityFindingsWe assess mask use data from 1,960 phone survey respondents and 9,549 direct observations. While only 12% of people admitted in phone interviews to not wearing a mask in public, 90% of people we observed did not have a mask visible (77.7% difference, 95% CI 0.742, 0.802). Self-reported mask use was significantly higher than observed mask use in all scenarios (i.e. in the village, in the market, on public transportation).InterpretationWe find limited compliance with the national government mask mandate in Kenya using directly observed data, but high rates of self-reported mask use. This vast gap suggests that people are aware that mask use is socially desirable, but in practice they do not adopt this behavior.Focusing public policy efforts on improving adoption of mask use via education and behavioral interventions may be needed to improve compliance.FundingWeiss Family Foundation, International Growth Centre

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Community-level survey of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) preventive measures in Kwara State, Nigeria: good knowledge vs poor attitude

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Bilewu²,

Sanusi³

et al. 2022

Global Health Journal

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Knowledge and preventive practice to COVID-19 among household heads in Enugu metropolis South-East Nigeria

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Knowledge, attitude, perception, and preventative practices towards COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review

Knowledge, attitude, perception, and preventative practices towards COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review

Self-Reported Mask Wearing Greatly Exceeds Directly Observed Use: Urgent Need for Policy Intervention in Kenya

Community-level survey of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) preventive measures in Kwara State, Nigeria: good knowledge vs poor attitude

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