KNOWLEDGE REGARDING COVID- 19 AMONG THE ADOLESCENT STUDENTS

Abstract

Speaking to WHO personnel who are based in all states/UTs in India, via video conference in April 2020, Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare said, “WHO is an important partner in our ght against the COVID-19. I really value guidance and contributions made by the WHO in containing spread of COVID-19 across the country.” The WHO Country Ofce for India (WCO India) has been working closely with the Government of India (GoI) to step-up preparedness and response measures for COVID-19, including surveillance and contact tracing, laboratory testing, risk communications and community engagement, hospital preparedness, infection prevention and control, and implementation of containment plan at all three levels of the health system – national, state and district. The entire eld presence, including the National Public Health Surveillance Project, consisting of more than 2000 personnel has been fully re-purposed to support the government to overcome this challenge. At the national level, WCO India is providing technical support to the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW) through the Joint Monitoring Group (JMG) and working closely with National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), National Disaster Management Authority and NITI Aayog. WHO teams are also supporting National and State Governments in ensuring essential health services such as immunisation, reproductive maternal newborn child and adolescent health (RMNCAH), non-communicable diseases and priority communicable diseases are available. Thus the investigator would like to take up the present study to assess the knowledge and attitude regarding use of contraception methods among female students. Objectives Of The Study: 1. To assess the knowledge regarding covid -19 amongadoloscent students. Method: The research approach adopted for the study was quantitative evaluative and the research design wasdescriptive survey design. By using non-probability, purposive sampling 100 adoloscent students from D. Y. PATILJunior college, Kolhapur. Structured knowledge questionnaire was used to assess the knowledge of adoloscent students regarding covid -19.The data was collected on socio demographic variables and knowlwdge questionnaire on Covid-19.After obtaining permission from the principals of junior colleges, Data were analyzed by using mean, median, mode, standard deviation, range. Results: After analysis of knowledge scores among 100 adoloscent students regarding covid -19 .Maximum number of 88 (88%) adolescent students had average knowledge and minimum 12 (12%) adolescent students had good knowledge While 0 (0%) adolescent students had poor knowledge Among 100 adolescent student. Interpretation And Conclusion: The present study revealed that Overall test of knowledge regarding the Covid -19 among adolescent students was average.