KIẾN THỨC VỀ COVID-19 CỦA NHÂN VIÊN Y TẾ TUYẾN CƠ SỞ TẠI HÀ NỘI NĂM 2020

Abstract

Knowledge about COVID-19 among health staff at grassroots level makes an important contribution to implementing disease control measures and health education for people in the community. A cross-sectional study was conducted. The study described the knowledge on COVID-19 among health staff at grassroots level in Hanoi, 2020. There were 675 health staff participate in the study. Information was collected using self-administered questionnaire. The results indicated that average age of heath staff was  38.8 ± 9.2. There were 34% of the staff gave the correct answer for more than 90% of the questions about COVID-19; 64% answered correctly 70% to 90% of the questions and only 2% had less than 70% of the questions. Specifically, suspicious symptoms of COVID-19 and when to use face mask and wash hands were high correct answer rates (respectively 99.6%, 99.9% and 99.7%). There were 84% of staff had acceptable rate of correct answers (equal or greater than 80% of the questions). The results showed that health staff had relatively good knowledge about COVID-19. This made a very important contribution to the prevention and control of the pandemic in Hanoi.