Abstract
This study aimed to explore the Sudanese COVID-19-related perceptions on preventive measures using the Health Belief Model, a psychosocial frame that explains and predicts health-related behaviours. A cross-sectional using an online-questionnaire through social media platforms, or channels. A snowball sampling technique was used. Descriptive analyses using frequencies and percentages for categorical variables, mean (±SD) for numerical variables. Bivariate relationships between the variables were assessed using a t-test. We conducted multiple variable analysis using the correlation between HBM constructs. Eight hundred seventy-seven participants with a mean age 37.8 (SD±11.94), primarily males, had a university education, employed and residing in Khartoum. Scores of 69% self-efficacy prevent COVID-19, 60% perceived severity if infected with COVID-19, 54% perceived susceptibility to COVID-19. Furthermore, high scores reported for hand hygiene barriers 50 and 53% social distancing. Self-efficacy correlated negatively with susceptibility (r=-0.084), positively with severity, benefits of and barriers to hand hygiene, benefits and barriers to social distancing (r=0.117, r=0.347, r=0.202, r=0.396, r=0.276), respectively. The lack of self-efficacy and low perception of severity and susceptibility, and increased perception of barriers to social distancing and hand hygiene among a considerable portion of the public hindered the compliance with the preventive measures. Doi: 10.28991/SciMedJ-2021-0304-4 Full Text: PDF
Highlights
Pneumonia of unknown cause detected in Wuhan, China, was first reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) in China on Dec 31 2019 [1]
This study aimed to explore the Sudanese COVID-19-related perceptions on preventive measures using the Health Belief Model, a psychosocial frame that explains and predicts health-related behaviours
Implementation of public health measures should be based on the understanding of the public’s perceptions, beliefs, and attitude; this study aimed to explore the roles of perceived threat, benefits, and barriers on the health preventive measures towards COVID-19 among Sudanese population
Summary
Pneumonia of unknown cause detected in Wuhan, China, was first reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) in China on Dec 31 2019 [1]. On 11 February 2020, WHO used the term 2019 novel coronavirus to refer to a coronavirus that affected the patients' lower respiratory tract. Further studies formally recognized this virus related to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and renamed it SARS-CoV-2 [2]. The coronavirus belongs to a family of viruses that are common in animals and may affect humans. Cause various symptoms such as pneumonia, fever, breathing difficulty, and lung infection [2]. On Mar 11, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak spread to 46 countries and was declared by WHO as a pandemic, the first in recent history [3]
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