Abstract
Objective:To assess the knowledge, awareness and attitudes of medical students towards recently discovered coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19).Methods:This was a cross sectional study conducted on medical students in CMH Lahore Medical College,(LMC), Institute of Dentistry (IOD). A questionnaire containing demographic information, 14 knowledge and eight attitude items was completed by 384 participants.Results:Overall, >90% people were aware about the etiology, mode of transmission and possible symptoms; however, very few of them knew about the in-depth details. Knowledge score revealed that 80% of participants had sufficient knowledge about coronavirus. MBBS students and nursing Students had significantly better knowledge in comparison with other students. In terms of attitude, >80% of students showed positive attitudes among which the nursing students were dominant.Conclusion:The medical students of CMH LMC showed a satisfactory level of awareness and attitudes towards COVID-19 with an obvious difference with regard to disciplines. More educational efforts with periodic educational interventions are still needed about the current pandemic.
Highlights
COVID-19 has become a pandemic these days and it is a topic of high public concern and medical students are directly or indirectly related to it
We found that more than half percentage of people relied on social media as a source of information
Medical students should carefully evaluate of coronavirus related awareness materials before sharing or applying it
Summary
COVID-19 has become a pandemic these days and it is a topic of high public concern and medical students are directly or indirectly related to it. Many people reported to different hospital in Wuhan, China with the complaints of fever, headache, shortness of breath, malaise and dry cough in mid-December 2019. They were admitted as the cases of atypical pneumonia. Some of them developed complications as the disease progressed. They developed respiratory failure and were given ventilatory support.[1]. The possibilities of other coronaviruses, influenza and other such diseases were ruled out by laboratory diagnostics. It was announced by the Chinese authorities on January 7, 2020 that a new strain of coronavirus
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