Open AccessKnowledge, Attitude and Practice Toward COVID-19 Pandemic Among Population Visiting Dessie Health Center for COVID-19 Screening, Northeast Ethiopia
Author(s) -
Daniel Gebretsadik,
Saba Gebremichael Tekele,
Melaku Ashagrie Belete
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
infection and drug resistance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.033
H-Index - 39
ISSN - 1178-6973
DOI - 10.2147/idr.s297047
Subject(s) - medicine , pandemic , functional illiteracy , population , logistic regression , public health , cross sectional study , confidence interval , systematic sampling , demography , covid-19 , family medicine , environmental health , nursing , pathology , disease , sociology , political science , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law
Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) is currently a global health threat and an international public health emergency. As of 21 January 2021, 97.8 million cases with more than two million deaths were recorded worldwide while in Ethiopia 132,326 confirmed cases and 2057 deaths were reported. Hence, the aim of the present study was to determine the magnitude of knowledge, attitude, and practice toward COVID-19 among the population who visited the health center for COVID-19 screening.