Abstract
Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic disease. In Thailand, public health professionals are the main stakeholder for risk management. The aim was to explore the reflections of the public health students regarding the first case of a COVID-19 patient near a university area, southern Thailand. Study design: The cross-sectional qualitative study. Methods: The study was conducted written on one page which contained four elements of the reflection concept. Students’ reflections were collected by the researcher after oral consent. The data analysis used the thematic analysis technique and included the following five steps: 1) reading and rereading to understand reflections, 2) identifying the coding, 3) setting the category of the coding in relation to meanings, 4) interpreting the theme based on their meaning and related phenomena, and 5) setting the main themes. Results: Ninety public health students that studied at a 3rd level classification of a community public health program. Almost all (77) were women (85.6%), were 20-21 years old, and had received information regarding the coronavirus outbreak from social media, family members, other students, lecturers, and other people. The 17 themes and 35 sub-themes of the reflection concept included three themes’ regarding the seven sub-themes of “What I faced”, five themes regarding the six sub-themes of “What I did”, four themes regarding the seven sub-themes of “What Happened”, and five themes regarding the 19 sub-themes of “So what or now what” elements. Conclusions: The reflections of the public health students are important for lecturers, the university, and their parents for supporting and guiding them to prevent the transmission of COVID-19.
Highlights
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a disease caused by a coronavirus (CoV) that severe cases can be death [1]
We were the questions that what are the reflections of the public health students at a university in southern Thailand regarding preventing and controlling COVID-19? this study aimed to explore the reflections of public health students’ experience related to COVID-19 prevention based on their experience
There were 90 public health students who studied at the 3rd level classification of a community public health program at a school of public health in a university in southern Thailand
Summary
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a disease caused by a coronavirus (CoV) that severe cases can be death [1]. The Thai MoPH announced that asymptomatic travelers arriving from at-risk countries and areas are strongly recommended to “selfquarantine” at home or another residence for 14 days. The Thai MoPH (as of the 6th March 2020) reported four new local coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases - men aged 20-42 years who arrived from Iran and Italy in the past week. The fourth is a Thai student, age 20 who returned from Iran Five days later, he went to a district hospital with a fever and runny nose. The aim was to explore the reflections of the public health students regarding the first case of a COVID-19 patient near a university area, southern Thailand. Conclusions: The reflections of the public health students are important for lecturers, the university, and their parents for supporting and guiding them to prevent the transmission of COVID-19
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