Journal of Ideas in Health (Dec 2020)

Knowledge, attitude, and practice towards COVID-19 among Syrian people resident in Turkey

  • Saad Ahmed Ali Jadoo,
  • Ilker Dastan,
  • Mustafa Ali Mustafa Al-Samarrai,
  • Shukur Mahmood Yaseen,
  • Asiyeh Abbasi,
  • Hassan Alkhdar,
  • Mohammed Al Saad,
  • Omar Mohamed Danfour

DOI
https://doi.org/10.47108/jidhealth.Vol3.IssSpecial2.61
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. Special2

Abstract

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Background: Measuring knowledge, attitude, and practice towards COVID-19 helps policymakers observe knowledge gaps and provide key messages to people to act better against the pandemic. This study aims to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice towards COVID-19 among Syrian people resident in Turkey. Methods: A cross-sectional study designed to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice towards COVID-19 among the Syrian people resident in Turkey. The data were collected via a web-based and self-administered questionnaire of 313 participants from 17-31 July 2020. SPSS version 16.0 was recruited to analyze the data using univariate and multivariable regression data analyses. Results: Our finding as the first study among Syrian people resident in Turkey found a high rate of good knowledge, attitude, and practice towards COVID-19 accordingly with 83.0%, 72.0%, 84.0%. Regression analysis showed that age-group of 45 years and more years, marital status of being married, female gender, living in urban area were significantly associated with upper knowledge score. Age-group of 45 years and more significantly associated with positive attitude score but inversely being married and unemployed statues significantly associated with a negative attitude. Regarding practice score, married and female people had better practice, but poor-rated health status was significantly associated with the weak practice. Conclusion: Although our finding showed a good rate for knowledge, attitude, and practice towards COVID-19, but it needs to improve cause of many barriers on Syrian people resident in Turkey, such as living in a crowded place, distant from health care services, losing whole or part of their income due to COVID-19 as an economic crisis, different language barriers. Some groups like men, people living in a rural area, and those unemployed or lost their job should be exposed by timely and accurate knowledge.

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