Knowledge, attitude, and practice of Bangladeshi urban slum dwellers towards Covid-19 transmission-prevention
A cross-sectional study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19593280 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zahid Hasan (0000-0002-3824-8947, University of Leeds, corresponding author), A M Rumayan Hasan (0000-0001-7800-5432, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research), Md Golam Rabbani (0000-0002-9937-6205, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research), Mohammad Selim (0000-0002-0571-5529, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research), Mohammad Abdus Selim, Shehrin Shaila Mahmood (0000-0002-6546-9120, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research) |
| Editors | Nnodimele Onuigbo Atulomah (0000-0002-4803-503X) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | e0001017 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | PLOS Global Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2767-3375 • E-ISSN: 2767-3375 |
| Publisher | Public Library of Science (PLoS) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pgph.0001017 |
| PMID | 36962862 |
| OpenAlex | W4294797990 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 35 |
The first COVID-19 case in Bangladesh was detected on March 8, 2020. Since then, efforts are being made across the country to raise awareness among the population for preventing the spread of this virus. We aimed to examine the urban slum dwellers’ knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) towards COVID-19 transmission-prevention. A phone-based cross-sectional survey was conducted in five slums of Dhaka City. Total 476 adult slum dwellers were interviewed between October 31 to December 1, 2020 using a pre-tested questionnaire. During an interview, information was collected on participants’ demographic characteristics and KAP items towards COVID-19. We used quartiles for categorization of knowledge and practice score where the first quartile represents poor, the second and third quartiles represent average while the fourth quartile represents good. Attitude score was standardized using z-score and identified as positive and negative attitude. Multiple linear regression models were used separately to identify the socioeconomic predictors of the KAP scores. The results showed that 25% of the respondents had good knowledge and 25% had poor knowledge, 48% had a positive attitude and 52% had a negative attitude, and 21% maintained good practice and 33% maintained poor practice towards COVID-19 transmission-prevention. About 75% respondents relied on television for COVID-19 related information. Regression results showed that knowledge and attitude scores were significantly higher if respondents had primary or secondary and above level of education compared to the uneducated group. Female respondents maintained significantly good practice compared to their male counterparts (β = 6.841; p
Cross-sectional study · Environmental health · Family medicine · Population · Quartile · Slum · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · COVID-19 and Mental Health · COVID-19 epidemiological studies · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts · Demography · Medicine · Internal Medicine
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 1.67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |