Abstract

A STUDY TO ASSESS THE KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE, BEHAVIOURAL CHANGES AND TO ACQUIRE PERCEIVED BARRIERS FACED DUE TO COVID-19 BY THE GENERAL POPULATION USING A SELF PREPARED QUESTIONNAIRE FOR THE AWARENESS OF HEALTH PROMOTION IN INDIA

Banothu Pranathi*, Hadiya Iram, Saadiya Afzal, Umra-o-Jaan and Dr. K. Swarna Priyadarshini

Abstract

December 2019 promulgated the commencement of The Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) or the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) which instigated its rapid spreading from its origin in Wuhan City of Hubei Province of China to the rest of the world causing a pandemic declared by World Health Organisation. The chief symptoms of The Novel CoronaVirus which is also known as Covid-19 comprises fever, cough, shortness of breath, fatigue. Its main itinerary of transmission is by nasal droplets of an infected person to a healthy person. Currently the world possesses no ample treatment for this but fortunately our most prominent health care workers have been able to discover and develop few vaccines as a precautionary method to prevent the further spread of this contagious disease. Presently our world lost three million eight hundred sixty-seven thousand ninety-two of its worthy survivors to Covid-19. Ergo by this we could analyse the urgent need of prevention rather than just cure. Hence the frontline goal of this study is to assess the percentage of knowledge or awareness separately in males, females, young people, and adults regarding Covid-19. And to evaluate which group among these above mentioned populations has knowledge range from high to nil about this disease based on their responses. Henceforth this study upon completion can serve as a base in future for other scholars working in this field of assessing knowledge of people.

Keywords: Novel CoronaVirus (nCoV), Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV), Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS),Pandemic, Lockdown, China.