Knowledge, attitude, and practices toward COVID-19 during pandemic among Indian adults: An online cross-sectional study

Abstract

Background: People's adherence to recommended control measures is influenced by their Knowledge, attitude and practices they are following in COVID-19 Pandemic. So study was carried out to assess Knowledge, attitude and practices regarding COVID-19 among Indian citizens. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out among Indian citizens above 18 years of age using snowball sampling method. Data were collected through Google Forms containing structured questionnaire. Results: Totally 678 citizens responded across 20 states of India. More females reported fever, dry cough, tiredness, difficulty in breathing, headache as most common symptoms of covid-19 and sneezing, coughing as way of its transmission than male. This difference was statistically significant. Most of the study participants had favorable attitude and behavior toward COVID-19 infection. Conclusion: Majority of the participants have good knowledge, favorable attitude, and practices regarding COVID-19 during this ongoing pandemic situation. Still, continuous awareness with regard to new evidence gathered is needed to break chain of transmission to contain COVID-19 disease. Individual's attitude toward health-care worker and police personnel needs to be improved through behavior change communication activities that enable health-care workers and frontline workers to work proficiently to win the fight against COVID-19.

Keywords

• attitude
• covid-19
• indian citizens
• knowledge
• practices