Knowledge and public health practices during lockdown towards COVID-19 in Bangladesh

Abstract

The study aimed to assess the role of having knowledge and essential hygiene practices to prevent coronavirus pandemic and to find out the relationship between people’s knowledge and good hygiene practices with socio-demographic variables during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic situation. In this study, data were collected from 248 respondents for cross-sectional study using voluntary response sampling from April, 30 2020 to May, 30 2020, during lockdown situation in Bangladesh. Descriptive statistics were done to calculate the frequencies and percentages by using Stata SE 14.2 (StataCorp). Chi-square was performed at the significance level of 5% to find the factors which were associated with knowledge about COVID-19. After knowing about COVID-19, 86.29% respondents had taken preventive measures and 71.37% respondents had agreed to stay at home. Among the respondents, 47.98% were involved in services and were positively associated with good general knowledge of preventive practices. Our present findings indicated significant relationship between good general knowledge and practice of general people towards COVID-19 outbreak in Bangladesh. The findings of the study are helpful for the researchers and the population to follow all good promotional practices for preventive measures against coronavirus.

Communicating health and risk information among senior citizens in Bangladesh

“…45.9% of senior citizens felt that the main source of coronavirus information came from family members than from electronic media (36%). One study in Bangladesh found that about 49% of respondents had received information about COVID-19 from the internet [16].…”

“…61.9% of males and 48.7% of females visited their friends or relatives face to face whereas 57.1% of males and 45.3% of females changed their eating habits since the spread of coronavirus. One study in Bangladesh found that more than 71% of the respondents had followed stay at home, 22.98% were confused about these preventive measures and only 5.65% agreed that staying at home cannot reduce the spread of COVID -19 [16]. Italian older were more likely to engage in preventative measures than young [17].…”