Awareness, Attitude & Knowledge of COVID-19 amongst North Indian Population: Mirror of an Outburst Scenario

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  • Haritma Nigam
     Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Pacific Dental College and Research Center, Udaipur, Rajasthan ,IN
  • Takshil D. Shah
     Department of Prosthodontics, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad - 380013, Gujarat ,IN
  • Sudhanshu Bhardwaj
     Private Practioner, Periodontology, Jaipur, Rajasthan ,IN
  • Pravin Parmar
     Department of Dentistry, SMIMER Medical College, Surat, Gujarat ,IN
  • Aasif Raza
     Dental Surgeon, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Jharkhand ,IN
  • Sandhya Saware
     Private Practitioner, Prosthodontics, Mumbai, Maharashtra ,IN

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18311/jpfa/2020/25242

Keywords:

COVID-19, pneumonia, Wuhan
Prosthodontics

Abstract

Context: In the current era, the evolving pathogen, CoVs was originated anonymously in a patient suffering from pneumonia in Wuhan in December 2019 has drawn implausible care around the world. Aim: Its aim was to assess the knowledge, attitudes and degree of awareness among the North India population of different ages towards COVID-19 through a well-formatted questionnaire. Methods and Materials: A cross-sectional study of 384 participants enlisted from various places was conducted through an effective and dependable questionnaire including socio demographic and COVID-19 knowledge data in the population of Northern India. Statistical Analysis Used: ONE-WAY ANOVA test was used to illustrate statistical differences and result came as significant at (p<0.05). Result: Maximum participants were males (52%) of age 40-59 years (39%); secondary passed (12%) and people working in a private sector (12%). Conclusion: Due to collaboration of all the sources as social media, television, newspaper and health related advertisement public was having good knowledge about COVID-19.

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2020-07-07

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Nigam, H., Shah, T. D., Bhardwaj, S., Parmar, P., Raza, A., & Saware, S. (2020). Awareness, Attitude & Knowledge of COVID-19 amongst North Indian Population: Mirror of an Outburst Scenario. Journal of Pierre Fauchard Academy (India Section), 34(2), 46–50. https://doi.org/10.18311/jpfa/2020/25242

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Volume 34, Issue 2, June 2020

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