Knowledge, attitudes and practices of French university students towards COVID-19 prevention-are health students better?

ABSTRACT: During the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, public health measures (PHM) were implemented to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2. At university, we wondered whether health students would be more likely to comply with these safety measures against infectious disease transmission compared to other students. Thus, we collected 1 426 university students' responses to an online anonymous survey to describe their knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of COVID-19 prevention measures and to compare the opinions and practices of health students and science students at the same university of Rouen Normandy (France). A higher proportion of science students (84.6%) compared to health students (73.9%) reported knowledge of the university's COVID-19 protocol, p<0.001. However, the health students compared to

SUBMITTER: Alessandri-Gradt E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10619770 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature