Level of awareness and knowledge of farm women about covid-19 in Golaghat District of Assam

Abstract

The knowledge, attitudes and practices of people hold towards any contagious disease like COVID-19 play an integral role in determining a society's readiness to accept behavioural change measures related to prevention of disease. Therefore, an effort was made to study the awareness toward COVID-19 among the farm women of Golaghat district of Assam. For the purpose, 110 numbers of farm women were selected from 5 different blocks of Golaghat district of Assam. A well designed questionnaire was developed as per the guidelines provided by World Health Organization on measures to be followed on time to time and distributed among the participants. The majority of respondents belong to the age group of 35 to 45 yrs old (34.55%) and 72 of total respondents were of OBC categories. Majority of respondent's education level was recorded to be in high school level (53.64%). The results of the present study revealed that there was high level of awareness especially among the farmwomen regarding nature, symptoms and preventive measures to be taken for preventing the spread of disease. Majority of respondents (80.90%) were aware that COVID-19 is a viral disease and 79.10 per cent of the respondents opined that the main mode of transmission of the virus is via respiratory droplets. All the respondents were of the view that farmers should take their own food and water from home to their agricultural field, along with that soap and water should also to be brought (84.54%). Besides that 74.54 per cent respondents were in the view that wearing mask and social distancing is important during agricultural operations.