Sazali Mohd Fazeli, Rahim Syed Sharizman Syed Abdul, Mohamed Mohd Haazik, Omar Azizan, Pang Nicholas Tze Ping, Jeffree Mohammad Saffree, Tat Yeap Boon, Giloi Nelbon, Mohd Bahar Farhana Harzila, Afridah Wiwik, Zakkiy Fasya Abdul Hakim, Hassan Mohd Rohaizat, Madrim Mohd Faizal, Mokti Khalid, Ramdzan Abdul Rahman, Sidek Ahmad Zulkhairul Naim, Atil Azman, Abd Rahim Muhammad Aklil, Ibrahim Mohd Yusof
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.
Faculty of Psychology and Education, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.
J Public Health Res. 2021 Mar 24;10(3):2122. doi: 10.4081/jphr.2021.2122.
COVID-19 related knowledge, attitude and practice plays a major role in determining the readiness of the community to adopt the behavioural change towards recommended preventive measures outlined by public health officials. This study aims to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding COVID-19 among university students as well as its associated factors.
This is a cross sectional study that was conducted among students in a public university during the early phase of COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia. An online validated self-administered questionnaire was used to collect the data. Mann-Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis test was used to determine the association between independent variables with knowledge, attitude, and practice score.
Overall response rate of this study was 92.9 (n=524). Median score of knowledge domain was 78.0 (IQR= ±12.0), median attitude score of 49.0 (IQR= ±5.0), and median practice score of 80.0 (IQR= ±11.0). The mean knowledge, attitude and practice score were significantly higher among diploma holder (vs degree holder, p<0.05), residing in main Kota Kinabalu campus (vs non-KK campus, p<0.001), studying in medical faculty (vs non-medical faculty, p<0.001), and attended COVID-19 education (vs non-attendance; p<0.05).
COVID-19 related knowledge and attitude were below satisfactory level during earlier phase of the pandemic. However, majority of respondents have positive behaviour towards COVID-19 prevention. This highlights the importance of accurate and tailored health education to improve the level of knowledge, attitude and practice of recommended measures to prevent COVID-19 spread.
与新冠病毒病（COVID-19）相关的知识、态度和行为，在决定社区是否愿意采取行为改变以遵循公共卫生官员建议的预防措施方面起着重要作用。本研究旨在评估大学生对COVID-19的知识、态度和行为及其相关因素。
这是一项横断面研究，在马来西亚COVID-19大流行早期阶段对一所公立大学的学生进行。使用经过验证的在线自填问卷收集数据。采用曼-惠特尼U检验和克鲁斯卡尔-沃利斯检验来确定自变量与知识、态度和行为得分之间的关联。
本研究的总体回复率为92.9%（n = 524）。知识领域的中位数得分为78.0（四分位间距 = ±12.0），态度中位数得分为49.0（四分位间距 = ±5.0），行为中位数得分为80.0（四分位间距 = ±11.0）。文凭持有者（与学位持有者相比，p < 0.05）、居住在哥打基纳巴卢主校区（与非哥打基纳巴卢校区相比，p < 0.001）、在医学院学习（与非医学院相比，p < 0.001）以及参加过COVID-19教育（与未参加相比；p < 0.05）的学生，其知识、态度和行为的平均得分显著更高。
在大流行早期阶段，与COVID-19相关的知识和态度低于令人满意的水平。然而，大多数受访者对COVID-19预防有积极行为。这凸显了准确且量身定制的健康教育对于提高预防COVID-19传播的推荐措施的知识、态度和行为水平的重要性。
