Knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards measures for prevention of the spread of COVID-19: An online cross-sectional survey among Bangladeshi residents

Abstract

The novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/ COVID-19) rapidly infects people across the world, leading to a massive public reaction. Peoples’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) towards measures for prevention of the spread of COVID-19 are the most important for the control and prevention of the pandemic infectious disease. This study aimed to assess the knowledge, attitude & practices (KAP) towards measures for prevention of the spread of COVID-19 among Bangladeshi residents during the COVID-19 pandemic. An online survey of 1765 respondents was conducted through the social media networks of authors. The respondents were older than 18 years, with an average age of 24.88 years (SD: 6.30). Approximately 15% of our participants received online training. The mean knowledge score was 14.49 (SD: 1.8, ranging: 0-17), and the overall correct response rate on this knowledge test was 85%. About 67.2 % scored well (above the mean: 4.5, range: 1-5) regarding the practices. To avoid the infection, 96.6% wear mask outside the home, and 98.7% washed hand with soap when came back. COVID-19 knowledge score was significantly associated with a lower risk of (OR: 0.87, 95% CI: 0.79-0.92) of negative attitudes. Again, the awareness score was associated with a lower likelihood of (OR: 0.94, 95% CI: 0.87-0.98) of poor practices. Online health education programs focusing on young people, housewife and people with less education may potentially improve the attitudes and practices to control the COVID-19 pandemic in long term in such a low resource setting.

Present knowledge, attitude, practice, and fear level of Bangladeshi people towards covid-19 after a year of the pandemic situation: a web-based cross-sectional study

“…On average, participants had a 74.5% practice score and 55% participants had more frequent practice, which was consistent with some studies from Bangladesh (6,7,9,25). So, our study indicates that the preventive practice level remains similar to what was in last year.…”

“…Our findings suggested that Bangladeshi adults might have lost their confidence towards controlling the rapid escalation of coronavirus as only 34.6% of participants took it confidently that Bangladesh can win the battle against covid-19 and concomitantly, only 43.8% of participants were confident that covid-19 will finally be controlled. Last year, Rabbani et al, (2020) reported that 55.3% of their participants were confident as to Bangladesh would win the battle against covid-19 which was also consistent with Kundu et al, n.d. (2020), and 68.5% were confident that covid-19 would be finally controlled which was somewhat lower compared to Banik et al, (2020) (8,9,25). On the other hand, a Malaysian, Chinese, Saudi Arabian, Indonesian, Nepali article published last year (2020) reported that they respectively obtained 83.1%, 90.8%, 94%, 94.3%, and 71.5% positive responses regarding whether covid-19 would successfully be controlled, and 95.9%, 97.1%, 97%, 95.5%, and 80% positive response regarding whether their country would be able to win the battle against covid-19 (18– 20,23,26).On the whole, it is obtrusive that attitude level among the populace has noticeably subsided.…”

Knowledge, attitude, practice, and fear level of Bangladeshi students toward Covid-19 after a year of the pandemic situation: A web-based cross-sectional study

“…On average, participants had 74.2% of total practice score and 55% of participants had more frequent practice of Covid-19 preventive measures (CPM), which is consistent with some earlier studies from Bangladesh [ 4 , 6 , 7 , 23 ]. Thus, our findings indicate that the preventive practice level remains similar to what was in last year.…”

“…Our findings indicated that Bangladeshi students might have lost their confidence toward controlling the rapid escalation of coronavirus as only 35.3% of participants were confident in believing that Bangladesh could win the battle against Covid-19 and concomitantly, only 44.2% of participants were confident that Covid-19 would finally be controlled. Rabbani et al [8] reported that 55.3% of their participants were confident about that Bangladesh would win the battle against Covid-19 which is also consistent with Kundu et al [23], and 68.5% were confident that Covid-19 would finally be controlled which is somewhat lower compared to Banik et al [7]. On the other hand, Malaysian, Chinese, Saudi Arabian, Indonesian, Nepali studies obtained, respectively, 83%, 91%, 94%, 94%, and 71.5% positive responses regarding whether Covid-19 would successfully be controlled, and 96%, 97%, 97%, 95.5%, and 80% positive response regarding whether their country would be able to win the battle against Covid-19 [16-18, 21, 24].…”

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

“…Evidence suggested that the rate of washing hand increased significantly (88.4%) after the coronavirus invasion and on average they wash their hands three times per day [30]- [32]. Some study also found that by using the nationwide representative data, more than ¾ people wash their hand after coming back from outsides [30], [33]. But after sneezing, coughing the rate of washing hand is comparatively low (about 37%) [30].…”