Department of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Science, Wachemo University, Hossana, Ethiopia.
Int J Clin Pract. 2021 Dec;75(12):e14530. doi: 10.1111/ijcp.14530. Epub 2021 Dec 5.
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) disease is a pandemic threat for humanity's healthcare system, social, economic, and psychological well-being for both developed and developing nations. In the case of developing nations such as the resource of Ethiopia, however, the key obstacle is to buy the vaccine and administer it to their people. In the study area, however, the degree of adherence to the COVID-19 preventive measure was not well-established. The aim of this study is to determine adherence to COVID-19 prevention measures in Hossana town.
From 3 to 29 January 2021, a community-based cross-sectional study was conducted among individuals living in the Hosanna town. We used a sample size of 384. The sample size was distributed to all eight kebeles in proportion to the size of the households contained in each kebele in the town of Hossana. Systematic sampling methods were used, and both descriptive and advanced analysis data were entered into Epi-data and exported to SPSS. Binary logistic regression was used to identify variables associated with adherence to preventive measures for COVID-19.
A total of 377 were included in the study with the response rate of 98.2%. The percentage of the study participants that had good adherence with the COVID-19 preventive measures is 50.4%. 145 (38.5%) of all respondents had poor knowledge on COVID-19 preventive measures, and 40.3% had poor COVID-19 transmission methods knowledge. Age (AOR: 0.34; 95% confidence interval [CI] [0.131-0.912]), educational status (AOR: 0.32; 95% CI [0.165-0.632]), marital status (AOR: 2; % CI [1.191-3.803]), family size (AOR: 2.4; % CI [1.322-4.366]), and COVID-19 complication (AOR: 0.49:95% CI [0.242-0.979]) were significantly associated with COVID-19 prevention measurement adherence in multivariate analysis.
This study found that approximately half of the participants had poor adherence to COVID-19 preventive measures. Factors associated with COVID-19 preventive measures were age, educational status, marital status, family size, and heard about complication of COVID-19 were associated with preventive measures.
2019 年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）是对人类医疗保健系统、社会、经济和心理健康的全球性威胁，无论是发达国家还是发展中国家都受到了影响。然而，对于埃塞俄比亚等发展中国家来说，关键的障碍是购买疫苗并为其人民接种。然而，在研究地区，人们对 COVID-19 预防措施的遵守程度尚未得到充分确立。本研究旨在确定霍萨纳镇对 COVID-19 预防措施的遵守情况。
2021 年 1 月 3 日至 29 日，在霍萨纳镇的社区中进行了一项基于人群的横断面研究。我们使用了 384 人的样本量。根据每个霍萨纳镇的家庭规模，将样本量按比例分配到八个基贝拉。使用系统抽样方法，将描述性和高级分析数据输入 EpiData，并导出到 SPSS。使用二元逻辑回归来确定与 COVID-19 预防措施的遵守相关的变量。
共有 377 人参与了这项研究，应答率为 98.2%。对 COVID-19 预防措施有良好遵守的研究参与者比例为 50.4%。所有受访者中，有 145 人（38.5%）对 COVID-19 预防措施的知识很差，40.3%对 COVID-19 传播方式的知识很差。年龄（AOR：0.34；95%置信区间[CI] [0.131-0.912]）、教育程度（AOR：0.32；95%CI [0.165-0.632]）、婚姻状况（AOR：2；%CI [1.191-3.803]）、家庭规模（AOR：2.4；%CI [1.322-4.366]）和 COVID-19 并发症（AOR：0.49；95%CI [0.242-0.979]）在多变量分析中与 COVID-19 预防措施的遵守显著相关。
本研究发现，大约一半的参与者对 COVID-19 预防措施的遵守程度较差。与 COVID-19 预防措施相关的因素包括年龄、教育程度、婚姻状况、家庭规模以及是否听说过 COVID-19 的并发症。
