Introduction: Coronavirus disease caused by SARS-COV2; a potentially fatal disease has become a global public health concern. As we know India is a densely populated country and the understanding of this novel disease is evolving it is important for the Indians to be aware of basic modes of prevention that can diminish the spread of the corona virus disease 2019 infection.
Aim: To compare and assess the awareness towards the spread and control of Covid-19 in a context of the health emergency.
Methodology: The questionnaire contained socio-demographic questions and 20 questions about definition, contagiousness, symptoms, incubation, source of infection, routes of transmission, treatment and infection control practices related to Covid 19. A questionnaire-based survey was made in an offline mode and distributed among 1000 undergraduate students to investigate their knowledge and awareness level about Covid-19.
Results: After evaluating all the responses gathered from the study population the knowledge scores were found to be significantly higher for the medical students compared with those of non-medical students.
Conclusion: From the present study, it can be concluded that awareness and knowledge regarding Covid-19 among medicos and non-medicos was good. Most of them were aware of the precautionary measures to be followed during the outbreak, but a small part of the study population requires education
Impact Factor
2022: 6.012
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