Report on Knowledge and Expressed Practice of Community Regarding

Prevention of Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19)

INTRODUCTION

Corona Virus Infectious Disease-19(COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a new or

mutated virus. The disease causes flu like symptoms such as cough, fever, headache, confusion,
feeling sleepy, lethargy, weakness and in more severe cases, difficulty breathing.

An online health survey was conducted to assess the knowledge and expressed practice of
community regarding the prevention of corona virus disease which was organized by M.Sc.
Nursing students of Rufaida College of Nursing under the Supervision of Ms. Seema Rani,
Associate Professor and Ms. Suchhanda Bhattacharya Nursing Tutor, Community Health
Department, Rufaida College of Nursing, Jamia Hamdard.

The main aim of the online survey was to assess the knowledge and expressed practice of
community regarding prevention of corona virus diseases.

OBJECTIVES OF THE ONLINE SURVEY

1. To assess the knowledge of community regarding prevention of corona virus diseases.
2. To assess the expressed practice of community regarding prevention of Covid-19
3. To seek the association of knowledge regarding prevention of corona virus disease with selected
demographic variable.
4. To seek the association of expressed practice regarding prevention of Covid-19 with selected
demographic variable.
5. To seek association of knowledge and expressed practice of community regarding prevention of
Covid-19
METHODOLOGY USED
 Quantitative approach was adopted for online survey
 Descriptive survey design and purposive sampling technique was used to collect data
 Sample comprised of 503 people
 Structured questionnaire was used to assess the knowledge and expressed practice
regarding prevention of corona virus disease.
 Analysis and Interpretation of the data collected
 Preparation of the report
 INTRODUCTION OF THE TOPIC

A novel corona virus called SARS-CoV-2 has resulted in the outbreak of an illness known as
COVID-19.Outbreak occurred in December, 2019. The corona virus is a virus that is found in
animals and, sometimes, can be transmitted from animals to humans and then spread from one
person to another person.

The corona virus disease has been identified as an outbreak of respiratory illness in Wuhan,
Hubei Province, China beginning in December 2019. By January 31, 2020, this epidemic had
spread to 19 countries with 11 791 confirmed cases, including 213 deaths. The World Health
Organization declared it a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. COVID 19 has
been characterized as a pandemic on March 12, 2020. Almost all countries have been affected by
this deadly yet preventable disease up till now. Number of people infected and dying is raising
day by day leaving mankind helpless and locked down in their households to a great extent.

MAGNITUDE

Place Cases No. of deaths

World 7668589 425803
India 309324 8882
Delhi 36824 1214

 India became only the 4th country in the world after the United State, Brazil, and Russia-
to report more than 3 lakh cases of the corona virus diseases
 More than 57% of all cases in India can be traced to just 3 states – Maharashtra, Delhi
and Tamil-Nadu

RESULT OF THE ONLINE SURVEY

The data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The majority of the subjects
i.e. 62.4% were in the age group of young adult 18-35 and 50.1% were male. 98.8% of the
subjects had adequate knowledge and 99.8% had appropriate expressed practice regarding
prevention of corona virus disease. This indicates that community has good knowledge and
practice as expressed by them. There was significant association between the knowledge of
community regarding prevention of corona virus disease with selected demographic variables i.e.
age, educational status and source of information. Further findings showed that there was a
positive correlation between the knowledge and expressed practice score of community.
SUMMARY

We have sent the online survey form to people all over the India to assess the knowledge and
expressed practice of community regarding prevention of corona virus disease. After collected
the data from 503 people descriptive and inferential statistics were employed to analyze the data.
The reliability of structured knowledge questionnaire was established by using K.R -20 formula
and was found to be highly reliable i.e. 0.87. The reliability of structured practice questionnaire
was established by using Cronbach Alpha test and was found to be highly reliable i.e. 0.89.
Average time taken to respond to both the tools was around 5 minutes.

CONCLUSION
The online Survey finding concludes that community has adequate knowledge and appropriate
level of expressed practice regarding prevention of Corona Virus Disease (COVID19). The
online survey was a huge learning experience for the M.Sc Nursing students. The objectives that
were laid down for the survey were by and large met. The most important benefit of the survey
was that the students learnt to work as a team. Ms. Seema Rani , Associate Professor and Ms.
Ms. Suchhanda Bhattacharya, Nursing Tutor, Community Health Department, Rufaida College
of Nursing, Jamia Hamdard, supervised in planning to execution and gave necessary instruction
to implement in the survey.