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      Knowledge, attitudes and practices towards COVID-19 guidelines among students in Bangladesh

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          This paper explores the level of knowledge, attitudes and practices towards COVID-19 guidelines among the students in Bangladesh. In achieving this objective, this paper used primary data collected from 1822 students wherein three different Likert scales and a one-way ANOVA test were used to assess knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) scores as well as mean differences with respect to different variables. This research reveals that the majority of students had a higher level of knowledge and a positive attitudes towards the COVID-19 guidelines. Contrarily, only 0.22 percent of students showed a strong compliance towards COVID-19 guidelines while the majority of students (60.54 percent) had rather poor adherence which is an alarming finding. Hence, reopening the educational institutions in Bangladesh amid this second wave of the pandemic is not advisable yet. Nevertheless, reinforcing the preventive measures through campaigns or online discussion is crucial to persuade people to follow the preventive guidelines. In addition to this, urgent vaccination of all students and teachers is highly recommended to contain this global disease in an attempt to reopen the on-campus education system as soon as possible.

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          Knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding COVID-19 outbreak in Bangladesh: An online-based cross-sectional study

          Most. Ferdous, Md. Islam, Md Tajuddin Sikder … (2020)
          In Bangladesh, an array of measures have been adopted to control the rapid spread of the COVID-19 epidemic. Such general population control measures could significantly influence perception, knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) towards COVID-19. Here, we assessed KAP towards COVID-19 immediately after the lock-down measures were implemented and during the rapid rise period of the outbreak. Online-based cross-sectional study conducted from March 29 to April 19, 2020, involving Bangladeshi residents aged 12–64 years, recruited via social media. After consenting, participants completed an online survey assessing socio-demographic variables, perception, and KAP towards COVID-19. Of the 2017 survey participants, 59.8% were male, the majority were students (71.2%), aged 21–30 years (57.9%), having a bachelor's degree (61.0%), having family income >30,000 BDT (50.0%), and living in urban areas (69.8). The survey revealed that 48.3% of participants had more accurate knowledge, 62.3% had more positive attitudes, and 55.1% had more frequent practices regarding COVID-19 prevention. Majority (96.7%) of the participants agreed ‘COVID-19 is a dangerous disease’, almost all (98.7%) participants wore a face mask in crowded places, 98.8% agreed to report a suspected case to health authorities, and 93.8% implemented washing hands with soap and water. In multiple logistic regression analyses, COVID-19 more accurate knowledge was associated with age and residence. Sociodemographic factors such as being older, higher education, employment, monthly family income >30,000 BDT, and having more frequent prevention practices were the more positive attitude factors. More frequent prevention practice factors were associated with female sex, older age, higher education, family income > 30,000 BDT, urban area residence, and having more positive attitudes. To improve KAP of general populations is crucial during the rapid rise period of a pandemic outbreak such as COVID-19. Therefore, development of effective health education programs that incorporate considerations of KAP-modifying factors is needed.
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            COVID-19 and Bangladesh: Challenges and How to Address Them

            Saeed Anwar, Mohammad Nasrullah, Mohammad Hosen (2020)
            As the coronavirus outbreak quickly surges worldwide, many countries are adopting non-therapeutic preventive measures, which include travel bans, remote office activities, country lockdown, and most importantly, social distancing. However, these measures face challenges in Bangladesh, a lower-middle-income economy with one of the world's densest populations. Social distancing is difficult in many areas of the country, and with the minimal resources the country has, it would be extremely challenging to implement the mitigation measures. Mobile sanitization facilities and temporary quarantine sites and healthcare facilities could help mitigate the impact of the pandemic at a local level. A prompt, supportive, and empathic collaboration between the Government, citizens, and health experts, along with international assistance, can enable the country to minimize the impact of the pandemic.
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                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Soc Sci Humanit Open
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Soc Sci Humanit Open
                Title: Social Sciences & Humanities Open
                Publisher: The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
                ISSN (Electronic): 2590-2911
                Publication date PMC-release: 17 July 2021
                Publication date (Print): 2021
                Publication date (Electronic): 17 July 2021
                Volume: 4
                Issue: 1
                Page: 100194
                Affiliations
                [a ]Department of Economics, Rabindra University, Bangladesh, Shahjadpur, Sirajganj, 6770, Bangladesh
                [b ]BK School of Research, Shahjadpur, Sirajganj, 6770, Bangladesh
                [c ]Chittagong Medical College, Chattogram, Bangladesh
                [d ]Institute of Education and Research, University of Rajshahi, 6205, Bangladesh
                Author notes
                [∗ ]Corresponding author. Department of Economics, Rabindra University, Bangladesh, Shahjadpur, Sirajganj, 6770, Bangladesh.
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                Publisher Item ID: S2590-2911(21)00090-5 Publisher ID: 100194
                DOI: 10.1016/j.ssaho.2021.100194
                PMC ID: 8285241
                PubMed ID: 34308336
                SO-VID: c720fa4a-d365-4fc5-a775-64a9d40480e4
                Copyright © © 2021 The Authors
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                Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.

                History
                Date received : 19 April 2021
                Date revision received : 19 June 2021
                Date accepted : 8 July 2021
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                Keywords: covid-19,knowledge,attitude,practice,bangladesh
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                Keywords: covid-19, knowledge, attitude, practice, bangladesh

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