Open AccessWashing Hands according to the WHO Guideline since the COVID-19 Outbreak in the Context of Medical Undergraduates at a Tertiary Care Center: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study
Author(s) -
Anuska Khadka,
Saurav Dani
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of nepal medical association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.176
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1815-672X
pISSN - 0028-2715
DOI - 10.31729/jnma.5259
Subject(s) - medicine , context (archaeology) , hand washing , cross sectional study , internship , descriptive statistics , guideline , family medicine , outbreak , tertiary care , health care , confidence interval , covid-19 , hygiene , disease , medical education , infectious disease (medical specialty) , paleontology , statistics , mathematics , pathology , economics , biology , economic growth , virology
Hand washing is an important preventive measure to avoid transmission of Coronavirus Disease of 2019. Medical students should be acquainted with the World Health Organization's hand-washing guidelines and should follow them to break the chain of spread of the virus. This study aims to find the acquaintance of medical undergraduates with the guidelines and to find out if they have started implementing these guidelines since the corona-virus outbreak.