埃塞俄比亚南部锡达玛地区选定地点公务员对 COVID-19 传播、预防和自我隔离管理的知识、态度和实践：一项多中心横断面研究。

Knowledge, attitude, and practice toward COVID-19 transmission, prevention, and self-quarantine management among public servants in selected locations of the Sidama region, Southern Ethiopia: a multicenter cross-sectional study.

机构信息

School of Nursing, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia.

出版信息

Front Public Health. 2023 Jun 27;11:1170317. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1170317. eCollection 2023.

DOI:10.3389/fpubh.2023.1170317

PMID:37441644

原文链接:https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10335795/

Abstract

BACKGROUND

The COVID-19 epidemic has put an enormous strain on the world's healthcare systems, lifestyles, and quality of life. Ethiopia attempted to meet the myriad needs of its people due to the COVID-19 epidemic and the government has demonstrated a strong commitment in order to lessen the epidemic's impact on the populace. Despite this fact, the population's compliance with measures was not as needed.

OBJECTIVES

To assess knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding COVID-19 transmission, prevention, and self-quarantine management among public employees in selected locations of the Sidama Region, Southern Ethiopia, in 2020.

METHODS

An institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted from 01 October to 30 October 2020, among 399 public servants in selected locations of the Sidama Region, Sothern Ethiopia. One-stage cluster sampling was used to randomly select 16 public service sector offices from the total 32 sector offices in the selected locations of the region. Simple random sampling was employed to select respondents following equal distribution of the samples to 16 sector offices. Data were collected using an adapted self-administered questionnaire. Data entered using EpiData version 3.1 and SPSS version 24 were used for statistical analysis. Descriptive statistics was used to compute frequencies, percentages, and means for independent and dependent variables.

RESULT

Overall, 42.36% of respondents had good knowledge of COVID-19, while the remaining 57.64% had poor knowledge. The percentage of favorable attitudes toward COVID-19 prevention and control were 65.2, 54.4% of respondents had a good level of practice of COVID-19 preventive and control measures, and 52.4% of the respondents had a good level of knowledge regarding self-quarantine management.

CONCLUSION

The level of knowledge, attitude, practice, and self-quarantine management in the area is insufficient for preventing and controlling the disease. Evidence-based awareness creation and law enforcement in the study areas and surroundings, with an emphasis on infection prevention and control (IPC) in the public sector and other public gathering areas, is recommended.

摘要

背景

新冠疫情给世界医疗体系、生活方式和生活质量带来了巨大压力。埃塞俄比亚试图满足新冠疫情下人民的各种需求，政府也表现出了坚定的承诺，以减轻疫情对民众的影响。尽管如此，民众对措施的遵守程度并不尽如人意。

目的

评估 2020 年在埃塞俄比亚南部锡达马地区选定地点工作的公共雇员对新冠病毒传播、预防和自我隔离管理的知识、态度和实践。

方法

2020 年 10 月 1 日至 30 日，采用基于机构的横断面研究方法，对埃塞俄比亚南部锡达马地区选定地点的 399 名公职人员进行调查。使用单阶段聚类抽样法，从该地区选定的 32 个部门办公室中随机抽取 16 个公共服务部门办公室。采用简单随机抽样法，在对 16 个部门办公室的样本进行等分布后，选择被调查者。采用经过改编的自填式问卷收集数据。使用 EpiData 版本 3.1 和 SPSS 版本 24 录入数据进行统计分析。使用描述性统计方法计算独立和因变量的频率、百分比和均值。