KIẾN THỨC, THÁI ĐỘ VÀ THỰC HÀNH PHÒNG CHỐNG DỊCH COVID-19 CỦA NGƯỜI DÂN TRÊN 18 TUỔI TẠI TỈNH ĐẮK LẮK NĂM 2021

Abstract

By cross-sectional descriptive research method with online data collection and survey link posting on Google form group. We conducted a survey of 1,154 people over 18 years about their knowledge, attitudes, and practices in COVID-19 prevention in Dak Lak province.The study sample consisted of 44.5% men and 55.5% women. The mean age was 35.9±11.9 years old. The Kinh account for 49.8%, the Ede 39.5% and the M'Nong 10.7%. There were 77.2% people who do not follow any religion. Education level was mainly from high school and above. 41.9% had an occupation as a farmer. 74.5% had an average household economy. There were 83.9% in rural areas and 16.1% in urban areas. 7.2% of study participants had COVID-19 and 4.1% had or had a family member with COVID-19. There was 99.39% of the study participants had heard about the COVID-19 epidemic. Channel to receive information about the COVID-19 epidemic: 87.8% from newspapers and television; 86.3% from internet, social networks; 84.4% from health workers and loudspeakers 82.8%. The average score of knowledge was 29.16 ± 5.5/45 points. The overall mean score of attitude was 14.95 ± 1.6/16 points. The overall average score of practice was 26.7 ± 4.5/32 points. There was no difference between men and women (p = 0.96) and between ages (p = 0.29) in terms of common knowledge, common attitudes and practices on COVID-19 prevention. There was a difference in common knowledge, common attitude and common practice on COVID-19 prevention and control with ethnicity (p<0.01), religion (p<0.01), education level (p). <0.01), occupation (p<0.01), household economy (p<0.01) and living area (p<0.01). Sources of information about the COVID-19 epidemic from the press, television, the internet, social networks, neighbors and relatives related to common knowledge, common attitudes and common practices in COVID-19 prevention and control (p =0.0000). The source of information about the COVID-19 epidemic from loudspeakers was only related to general knowledge (p=0.001). There is a positive correlation between common knowledge and common attitude (r=0.490, N=1,154 and p=0,000) and common practice (r=0,601, N=1,154, p=0,000) on COVID-19 prevention. There is a positive correlation between common attitude and common practice (r=0,545, n=1,154, p=0,000) on COVID-19 prevention.