Open AccessFamily Physicians' Knowledge about and Attitudes towards COVID-19 - A Cross-sectional Multicentric Study
Author(s) -
Özden Gökdemir,
Halil Pak,
Maria Bakola,
Sudip Bhattacharya,
Kyle Hoedebecke,
Eleni Jelastopulu
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
infection and chemotherapy/gam'yeom gwa hwahag yo'beob/infection and chemotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.724
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 2092-6448
pISSN - 1598-8112
DOI - 10.3947/ic.2020.52.4.539
Subject(s) - medicine , pandemic , anxiety , cross sectional study , openness to experience , covid-19 , disease , family medicine , population , psychiatry , psychology , environmental health , infectious disease (medical specialty) , social psychology , pathology
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected every country on earth, and family physicians (FPs) have helped patients at every stage. The first objective of our study was to study the FPs' knowledge about COVID-19 and second objective was to assess their attitudes, stress and death anxiety surrounding the current pandemic.