The COVID-19 pandemic: A multi-regional cross-sectional survey of public knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions.

ABSTRACT: With over twelve months since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, its morbidity and mortality continue to be a critical health threat despite various instituted preventive and control efforts. Information on the multi-regional public perspective of the diseases is limited. Therefore, this study investigated public knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards COVID-19 across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and South Asia (SA) regions of the world. In an online pretested questionnaire-based cross-sectional survey, respondents (n = 2738) were recruited using a convenience sampling technique and data obtained were subjected to descriptive and inferential statistics. The majority of respondents had bachelor's degrees or higher (91.1%) and were aged between 18 and 3

SUBMITTER: Odetokun IA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10022257 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature