Abstract
Background: Efforts to promote COVID-19 will actually be in vain without a proper understanding of the perceptions and beliefs that prevail in society. That is why this study sought to identify the gaps in Ethiopia about COVID-19 false interpretation and lack of knowledge.Methods: A survey was conducted online in Ethiopia from 22 April to 4 May 2020. The connection to the questionnaire were announced via email, digital media and the Jimma University website. The perception of COVID-19 was based on World Health Organisation (WHO) sources and knowledge. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20.0 software was used to analyse the data. A list of categories and factors was developed for facilitators' perceptions, barriers and information needs. An explanatory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted to support the categorization. Standardized category means were compared using analysis of variance (ANOVA) and t-test. The p<0.05 value and significant differences were claimed as they were supposed to be taken as the very result of this article and further discussed in a manner of strategy to identify the false belief and superstitions regarding COVID-19.Inference: The assumption that youth are at minimal chance of contracting COVID-19 requires continuous monitoring and attention. Communication chances and social participation activities need to take into account local and community variations in misbelief and fake assurances. Local efforts must be designed to meet source needs and increase community ownership of anti-viral measures, and should support efforts to address standard precautions. Various methods of communication must be used and appropriately understood to make out the misbelief and fake information.
Highlights
The latest coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19 for short), announced by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 30 January 2020, is a pandemic. [1]
More than 900 responses were collected during the period of survey, and the explanatory factor analysis (EFA) found two main categories of perceived advocates for COVID-19 use: behavioural disobedience (55.9%) and no advocates
Every factor has been addressed step by step, as indicated below. This survey has led us to an understanding of how the people or the common man perceives the major problems of the world and its effects in daily routine and having many different views such which may be false and many a times referred as a myth and having no understanding about it leading to many other cases of fake news and with fact checking a source spreads these false facts and its consequences may be hazardous
Summary
The latest coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19 for short), announced by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 30 January 2020, is a pandemic. [1]. In late December 2019, a cluster of pneumonia cases of unknown etiology was first reported in Wuhan, China, epidemiologically associated with exposure to seafood markets and undetected exposure [2, 3] This disease that started as a sporadic infection in the city of china has changed to a pandemic disease of the world wide scale and has led to many deaths and suffering in the countries along the global manifestation of the very rule bending position of crisis which has been a rule of history to repeat itself after a century. A list of categories and factors was developed for facilitators' perceptions, barriers and information needs. Local efforts must be designed to meet source needs and increase community ownership of anti-viral measures, and should support efforts to address standard precautions. Various methods of communication must be used and appropriately understood to make out the misbelief and fake information
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