Department of Comprehensive Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wollo University, P.O. Box: 1145, Dessie, Ethiopia.
Department of Comprehensive Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wollo University, P.O. Box: 1145, Dessie, Ethiopia.
Diabetes Metab Syndr. 2021 May-Jun;15(3):847-856. doi: 10.1016/j.dsx.2021.03.033. Epub 2021 Apr 8.
Corona virus disease-19 first detected in China, December 2019. The government of Ethiopia takes preventive measures but the number of peoples infected with COVID-19 has been increased. Control of the pandemic requires changing of knowledge, attitude and practice of people. Hence, the objective of this study was to assess chronic disease patients' knowledge, attitude and practice towards COVID-19 pandemic.
Institution based cross-sectional study was done among 413 chronic disease patients from July 20 to August 5, 2020 in Dessie town hospitals. Multinomial logistic regression analysis was used and significant association declared at p-value of <0.05.
From the total participants 34.6%, 81.4% and 40.7% had good knowledge, attitude and practice while 35.1%, 12.1% and 24.7% had moderate knowledge, attitude and practice towards COVID-19 pandemic, respectively. In multinomial logistic regression young age, urban residency, attainment of secondary education and presence of additional co-morbidity were predictors of moderate knowledge whereas urban residency, not attended formal education and presence of additional co-morbidity were predictors of good knowledge about COVID-19. Household family size and presence of additional co-morbidity were factors significantly associated with moderate practice of COVID-19 prevention methods. Furthermore, male sex, household family size, knowledge of COVID-19 and attitude towards COVID-19 were factors significantly associated with good practice of COVID-19 prevention methods.
Significant number of chronic disease patients had poor knowledge and practice towards COVID-19. Therefore, government, health professionals, Medias, researchers and health institution should do to improve the gaps of chronic diseases patients.
2019 年 12 月，在中国首次发现了新型冠状病毒病-19。埃塞俄比亚政府采取了预防措施，但感染 COVID-19 的人数仍在增加。控制大流行需要改变人们的知识、态度和实践。因此，本研究的目的是评估慢性病患者对 COVID-19 大流行的知识、态度和实践。
2020 年 7 月 20 日至 8 月 5 日，在德西镇医院对 413 名慢性病患者进行了基于机构的横断面研究。采用多项逻辑回归分析，显著关联的 p 值<0.05。
在总参与者中，34.6%、81.4%和 40.7%对 COVID-19 大流行具有良好的知识、态度和实践，而 35.1%、12.1%和 24.7%分别对 COVID-19 大流行具有中等知识、态度和实践。在多项逻辑回归中，年轻、城市居住、中等教育程度和存在额外合并症是中等知识的预测因素，而城市居住、未接受正规教育和存在额外合并症是 COVID-19 良好知识的预测因素。家庭规模和存在额外合并症是与 COVID-19 预防方法中等实践显著相关的因素。此外，男性、家庭规模、COVID-19 知识和 COVID-19 态度是 COVID-19 预防方法良好实践的显著相关因素。
相当数量的慢性病患者对 COVID-19 的知识和实践较差。因此，政府、卫生专业人员、媒体、研究人员和卫生机构应努力缩小慢性病患者的差距。
