Abstract
Aim: There is evidence that health care providers have insufficient knowledge and poor practices regarding the use of surgical mask. Therefore, this study aimed to explore the knowledge, practices and attitude of healthcare providers about using face mask in order to limit the spreading of the novel coronavirus disease.
 Methodology: This was a cross sectional pilot study included a questionnaire about the knowledge of health care workers regarding the use of surgical face mask to prevent the new COVID-19 spreading and about their practices and the attitude of them regarding the use of surgical face mask to limit the new COVID-19 exposure.
 Results: About 86.21% of health care workers said that the correct way of using surgical face mask is White side facing in and about 65.52% of them said that N-95 mask is the mask type that actually protect against COVID-19. All of the respondents reported that they wear a mask in public places to protect themselves against COVID-19 and that they wear a mask in hospital premises to protect themselves against COVID-19 (100.00%).
 Conclusion: The Knowledge, attitude, and practice of health care providers regarding the use of surgical face masks were found to be good but still more knowledge is required about several aspects such as the types of masks, the duration of using masks and the disposal of the masks.
Highlights
At the end of December 2019, several cases of pneumonia of unknown cause in China were reported to the World Health Organization (WHO)
About 86.21% of health care workers said that the correct way of using surgical face mask is White side facing in and about 65.52% of them said that N-95 mask is the mask type that protect against COVID-19
The Knowledge, attitude, and practice of health care providers regarding the use of surgical face masks were found to be good but still more knowledge is required about several aspects such as the types of masks, the duration of using masks and the disposal of the masks
Summary
At the end of December 2019, several cases of pneumonia of unknown cause in China were reported to the World Health Organization (WHO). On 11th March 2020, World Health Organization declared coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as a global pandemic [2]. SARS-CoV-2 had spread to more than 200 countries and territories, and accounted for Millions of confirmed cases of COVID-19 [3]. Care workers as a standard for transmissionbased precaution [8,9], these masks should be used correctly when its use is becoming highly prevalent [10] There is evidence that health care providers have insufficient knowledge and poor practices regarding the use of surgical mask [11]. This study aimed to explore the knowledge, practices and attitude of healthcare providers about using face mask in order to limit the spreading of the novel coronavirus disease
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