Relationship between awareness and fear about coronavirus disease infection among M.B.B.S. students studying at dedicated coronavirus disease hospital - A cross-sectional web-based survey

First documented evidence of pandemic can be found as early as 1350 BC in Amarna letters complaining plague in the city of Megiddo. [...]virtually none exists that analyzes level of knowledge about COVID-19 infection and its impact on fear and anxiety levels, especially among the medical students fr...

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Published inNational journal of physiology, pharmacy and pharmacology Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 1 - 73
Main Authors Bhangale, Chetan, Ramanand, Jaiprakash, Teli, Shaikh, Mahajan, Harshal
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Surat Association of Physiologists, Pharmacists & Pharmacologists 01.01.2022
Subjects
Anxiety
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Curricula
Data collection
Disease transmission
Epidemics
Ethics
Hospitals
Infections
Knowledge
Medical students
Pandemics
Professionals
Questionnaires
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Social networks
Standard deviation
Viruses
India
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Summary:First documented evidence of pandemic can be found as early as 1350 BC in Amarna letters complaining plague in the city of Megiddo. [...]virtually none exists that analyzes level of knowledge about COVID-19 infection and its impact on fear and anxiety levels, especially among the medical students from different levels of their medical curriculum. [...]the present study was started with the objective of assessing the association between level of knowledge about COVID-19 infection and fear, anxiety associated with the same among the medical students studying at Government Medical College (GMC), Jalgaon. First form included questionnaire with 10 multiple-choice single best answer type questions. [...]Google Form questionnaire included seven questions with five Likertbased choices each from strongly disagree (score=1) to strongly agree (score=5) for evaluation of fear of COVID-19 among the participants.
ISSN:2320-4672
2231-3206
DOI:10.5455/njppp.2022.12.08275202109082021