Assessment of COVID-19 related preventive measures in medical students across a lower-middle-income country: A cross-sectional study from Pakistan.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aims to identify the effect of having COVID-19 positive close contact on practices and evaluate practices regarding COVID-19 prevention among medical students and the differences among clinical and preclinical students.

Study design

The cross-sectional study included medical students from the Micro-fest++ event held on 30th May 2020.

Methods

Participants filled a questionnaire of 15 questions regarding COVID preventive measures practices having satisfactory reliability (Cronbach's alpha = 0.715) and validity. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (IBM SPSS) 26.0 was used for data analysis. Out of 1342 medical students, the majority were female (N = 881, 65.6%). Greater proportion (47%) of students had good practices (>85.7%) (p < 0.05).

SUBMITTER: Ahmad S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9509292 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature