Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices (KAP) Regarding the COVID-19 Outbreak in Côte d’Ivoire: Understanding the Non-Compliance of Populations with Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions

Yapi, Richard B.; Houngbedji, Clarisse A.; N'Guessan, Daniel K G; Dindé, Arlette Olaby; Sanhoun, Aimé R.; Amin, Ariane; Gboko, Kossia D. T.; Heitz-Tokpa, Kathrin; Fokou, Gilbert; Bonfoh, Bassirou

doi:10.3390/ijerph18094757

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“…Firstly, our study suggests that public knowledge of COVID-19 in Ghana is generally good, as the overwhelming majority of the 1560 respondents questioned, in cities and also in the countryside scored an average of 69.9%. These results are indeed comparable to studies from neighboring countries such as Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Uganda, and Gambia [ 18 , 19 , 20 ]. These findings may be explained with prior exposure and experiences of the population to and with similar infectious outbreaks, for instance, cholera, which accounts for 3.8% of fatalities in Ghana each year [ 21 ].…”

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Knowledge into the Practice against COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Study from Ghana

Yeboah

Daliri

Abdin

et al. 2021

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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected populations globally, including Ghana. Knowledge of the COVID-19 disease, and the application of preventive public health interventions are pivotal to its control. Besides a lockdown, measures taken against the spread of the virus include the wearing of face masks, social distancing, regular hand washing with soap and, more recently, vaccination against the virus. In order to establish a possible link between the knowledge of the disease and compliance with preventive measures, including vaccination, a cross-sectional study employing an interview-structured questionnaire was conducted in six regions of Ghana (n = 1560). An adequate level of knowledge of COVID-19 (69.9%) was reported. The linear multiple regression analysis further explicated the differences in the knowledge of COVID-19 among the respondents by their knowledge of cholera and influenza (adjusted R-Square = 0.643). Despite this profound knowledge of the illness, two thirds of the respondents were unwilling to follow basic preventive measures and only 35.3% were willing to be vaccinated. Amazingly, neither knowledge of COVID-19 nor the socio-demographic characteristics had any meaningful influence on the practice of preventive measures. Personal attitude leading to efficient public compliance with preventive measures, therefore, is a critical issue demanding special attention and effective interventions by the government and locals with authority to curb the spread of the pandemic which surpasses the traditional channels of public health communication. This includes a roll-out of persuasion, possibly including public figures and influencers, and in any case, a balanced and open discussion addressing the acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine in order to avoid new variants and comparable problems currently facing many countries of Western Europe. Indeed, a profound hesitancy against vaccination may turn African countries such as Ghana for many years into hotspots of new viral variants.

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Knowledge into the Practice against COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Study from Ghana

Yeboah

Daliri

Abdin

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“…There are numerous studies describing and investigating compliance with Covid-19 measures in various countries, particularly for the US [2][3][4][5][6][7], Germany [8], Italy [9], Switzerland [1,10], Slovakia [11], Israel [12], South Korea [13], Japan [14], Indonesia [15], or Co ˆte d'Ivoire [16]. Even though many of these studies only use opportunity samples or student samples, a few consistent results have still emerged.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Many studies also investigate how trust in the government and countries' health institutions affects compliance with social distancing recommendations [11,12,[16][17][18][19]. Pak et al [17] use a global survey on Covid-19 attitudes and behaviors conducted in 177 countries (see Fetzer et al [20]).…”

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Fatigue during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence of social distancing adherence from a panel study of young adults in Switzerland

Franzén

Wöhner

2021

PLoS ONE

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In this paper we analyze panel data (N = 400) to investigate the change in attitudes towards the Covid-19 measures and the change in compliance behavior between the first and second lockdowns in a sample of young adults from the University of Bern, Switzerland. We find considerable fatigue. While respondents expressed high acceptance of and compliance with the Covid-19 measures during the first lockdown, both acceptance and compliance behavior decreased substantially during the second lockdown. Moreover, we show via a structural equation model that respondents’ compliance behavior is largely driven by the perception of how others behave and by the acceptance of the Covid-19 measures. All other effects scrutinized e.g., individual and social risk perception, trust in politics, and pro-social orientations affect compliance behavior via the acceptance of Covid-19 measures. We also conduct two tests of causality of the estimated relation between attitudes towards the measures and social distancing behavior. The first test incorporates the effect of compliance behavior reported during the first lockdown on attitudes during the second lockdown. The second test involves estimating a first difference panel regression model of attitudes on compliance behavior. The results of both tests suggest that the effect of Covid-19 attitudes on social distancing behavior can be interpreted causally.

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“…Unexpectedly, interventions have a substantial mediating effect between attitudes and behaviors, showing that the nature of the NPIs is critical for tourist behavior. Attitudes toward pandemic biosecurity for travel greatly influence pandemic interventions for travel, revealing that people who travel internationally have positive attitudes on biosecurity and tend to accept pandemic-related interventions for travel, expanding previous findings on attitudes and NPIs [36][37][38]. In addition, attitudes substantially lead to pandemic biosecurity behaviors for tourism, broadening past research on attitudes and behaviors during a pandemic [33,39].…”

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confidence: 80%

“…Strong attitudes have been found to be a good predictor of the adoption of four personal NPIs (handwashing, proper coughing habits, social distancing, and mask wearing) [37]. Attitudes regarding COVID-19 and the government/health system appear likely to influence compliance with preventive measures such as self-reporting, physical distancing, the use of face masks, and the acceptability of vaccines [38]. Drawing on this literature, this study posits the following hypothesis:…”

Section: Hypothesis 1 (H1) Values On Covid-19 Biosecurity For Travel Positively Influence Attitudes Toward Covid-19 Biosecurity For Travementioning

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Factors Affecting Pandemic Biosecurity Behaviors of International Travelers: Moderating Roles of Gender, Age, and Travel Frequency

2021

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Research undertaken during the COVID-19 pandemic has identified a number of significant factors that affect international travelers’ biosecurity behavior. Tourists’ age and gender as well as travel frequency have been found to have significant impacts on consumers’ non-pharmaceutical intervention practices. However, despite the importance of age, gender, and travel frequency, such studies have overlooked international tourists’ values, attitudes, interventions, and behaviors relevant to biosecurity during a pandemic. In order to bridge this gap, the purposes of this study are to build and test a conceptually comprehensive framework on the relationships between values, attitudes, interventions, and behaviors, along with the moderating effects of age, gender, and travel frequency. To meet the study objectives, a digital survey was administered during 1–5 September 2020, which generated n = 386 total useable responses. Data were analyzed using the partial least squares approach. The results revealed that tourists’ values have the greatest effect on their attitudes toward COVID-19 biosecurity for travel, which in turn positively influences interventions and behaviors. Interventions also have a significant impact on travelers’ COVID-19 biosecurity behavior. This study expands the theoretical understanding of biosecurity and pandemic behavior. The findings of this research also provide significant insights to the literature as well as stakeholders, such as governments, health organizations, international health and tourism agencies, and destinations, with respect to managing international travel biosecurity measures.

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Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices (KAP) Regarding the COVID-19 Outbreak in Côte d’Ivoire: Understanding the Non-Compliance of Populations with Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions

Cited by 21 publications

References 47 publications

Knowledge into the Practice against COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Study from Ghana

Knowledge into the Practice against COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Study from Ghana

Fatigue during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence of social distancing adherence from a panel study of young adults in Switzerland

Factors Affecting Pandemic Biosecurity Behaviors of International Travelers: Moderating Roles of Gender, Age, and Travel Frequency

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