Public Health and Community Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
Public Health, and Community Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt.
PLoS One. 2023 Oct 6;18(10):e0292247. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0292247. eCollection 2023.
Even with the mild form of COVID-19, people need to practice the proper preventive measures to achieve health, safety and control spread of infection. Few studies assessed sound disinfection and rehabilitative knowledge. This study aims to assess the self-reported, knowledge of specific disinfection measures among post-recovery COVID-19 patients and identifying the most requested knowledge items regarding the prevention and post COVID rehabilitation measures.
This is an exploratory cross-sectional study using an electronically open survey. A pre-tested e-questionnaire was employed for data assembling. The sample size was calculated and a total of 417 people completed the questionnaire. Knowledge score was calculated for preventive and disinfection measures during and after COVID 19 infection. It comprised three sections: socio-demographics, study participants' knowledge regarding precautions, disinfection, and rehabilitation measures, as well as sources of knowledge about COVID-19.
All participants infected with COVID-19 (82%) reported self-isolation for ten days after confirming the infection, with only 18% required hospitalization. Regarding the information needed by the participants, the highest requests were for the rehabilitation information after COVID-19 and preventive measures. Females under 30 years old and those with a college education or higher were significantly more likely to request rehabilitation information after COVID-19 (P-value 0.05). Nevertheless, males were significantly more interested in information regarding preventive measures; They were over 30 years old and had education below university (P-value 0.05). Participants (above 30 years old) had significantly higher knowledge of preventive and disinfection measures during and after COVID-19 infection (P = 0.030).
After the COVID-19 experience, most participants demonstrated a great desire for rehabilitation information and proper preventive measures. This paves the way for delivering self-management and rehabilitation knowledge and emphasizing the significance of various prevention modalities.
即使是 COVID-19 的轻症，人们也需要采取适当的预防措施来保持健康、安全并控制感染的传播。很少有研究评估过正确的消毒和康复知识。本研究旨在评估 COVID-19 康复患者对特定消毒措施的自我报告知识，并确定预防和 COVID-19 后康复措施方面最需要的知识项目。
这是一项使用电子开放式调查的探索性横断面研究。采用预先测试的电子问卷收集数据。计算了样本量，共有 417 人完成了问卷。知识得分是根据 COVID-19 感染期间和之后的预防和消毒措施计算的。它包括三个部分：社会人口统计学、研究参与者对预防措施、消毒和康复措施的知识以及有关 COVID-19 的知识来源。
所有感染 COVID-19 的参与者（82%）报告在确认感染后自我隔离十天，只有 18%需要住院治疗。关于参与者需要的信息，康复信息和预防措施的需求最高。30 岁以下的女性和受过大学教育或更高学历的人更有可能要求康复信息（P 值 0.05）。然而，男性对预防措施的信息更感兴趣；他们 30 岁以上，受教育程度低于大学（P 值 0.05）。30 岁以上的参与者在 COVID-19 感染期间和之后的预防和消毒措施方面的知识明显更高（P = 0.030）。
在 COVID-19 经历之后，大多数参与者表现出对康复信息和适当预防措施的强烈渴望。这为提供自我管理和康复知识铺平了道路，并强调了各种预防方法的重要性。
