Abstract
The study was carried out to examine the compliance of people to awareness programmes/preventive measures on COVID-19. The study was carried out in Ibadan North Local Government Area of Oyo State with the population being the residents of Ibadan North Local Government area. The study employed a descriptive design of the survey type. A self-designed questionnaire was used to elicit responses from respondents through purposive sampling method via Google form; sent to 400 respondents out of which 200 copies of questionnaire which were filled in a valid form were used for the study. Descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation with appropriate remarks were used to analyse the research questions while T-test was used to analyze hypotheses 1-3 and ordinary least squares regression was used to analyse hypothesis 4. The study showed that there existed a strong relationship between awareness programmes/preventive measures on COVID-19 and compliance of Ibadan North Local Government area citizens; that there existed a low significant relationship between medium of information and compliance of people to awareness/preventive measures on COVID-19 as indicated in (r = 0.811, P = .000 <0.05) and among others the study revealed that awareness programmes, medium of information and preventive measures had (P = 0.05, R = 0.993, R2 = 0.976, Adjusted R2 = 0.986, F = 4707.2; Sig = 0.000); which showed that these dependent variables had significant relationship with people’s compliance to awareness programmes on COVID-19.
 
 Among the recommendations made were that government of Oyo State in particular and Nigeria in general should heighten the process of awareness programmes, provide materials that would help in taking preventive measures to indigent people and educate people on the lookout for verified and certified information from real authoritative sources as opposed to subscribing to fake news.
Highlights
Infectious diseases that cause death, disability and social and economic imbalance as well as political disruptions of accusations and counter accusations are major problems to humanity
The study showed that there was a strong and positive significant relationship between awareness programmes/preventive measures and people’s compliance with these measures. This might be a result of the fact that Nigerians generally would not have paid much attention to COVID-19 awareness/preventive measures but seeing highly placed government officials dying due to COVID-19, efforts were made by individuals within the state and Nigeria in general to be more responsive to warnings as they are being flouted on awareness programmes and they started paying more attention to preventive measures; though with incessant complaints about face mask making them uncomfortable
The result of this study showed a significant relationship between perceptions of citizens on awareness programmes/preventive measures on Covid-19 and their compliance level (r = 0.983, P=0.000< 0.05)
Summary
Infectious diseases that cause death, disability and social and economic imbalance as well as political disruptions of accusations and counter accusations are major problems to humanity. At the early discovery of any infectious disease, the body responsible for disease control and prevention are expected to swing into action with the aim of stopping the rapid spread of the disease through the process by which various awareness programmes and preventive measures are anchored and spread to the nooks and crannies of the countries where the disease ravages. This presupposes giving people adequate education and precautions to reduce their chances of being infected and thereby curtailing its spread. People who are aware will do a critical analysis of the situation and come up with good solutions as to keep themselves safe (Adedokun, 1998)
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