Knowledge and Awareness on Practising Social Distancing in Prevention of COVID-19 Pandemic - A Questionnaire based Survey

• Published in: Annals of the Romanian society for cell biology Vol. 25; no. 3; pp. 905 - 927
• Main Authors: Kushali, R, Rani, Leslie, Brundha, M P, Geetha, R V
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Arad "Vasile Goldis" Western University Arad, Romania 01.01.2021
• Subjects: Age; Age groups; Blood pressure; Cellular biology; Coronary artery disease; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Diabetes mellitus; Epidemics; Heart diseases; Hypertension; Infections; Pandemics; Population; Population studies; Prevention; Questionnaires; Sample size; Social distancing; Viral infections
• ISSN: 2067-3019; 2067-8282

[...]people have awareness about the various preventive measures and the fact social gatherings can increase the risk of the COVID -19 spread Keywords: Social distancing, negative impact, awareness, COVID Introduction: Coronaviruses are a huge family of viruses and COVID-19 is a new strain discovered in the year 2019. Studies also reveal that populations above the age of 60 are highly susceptible to the infections and evenly high prone in case if these individuals are suffering from diabetes mellitus, heart diseases, high blood pressure and respiratory conditions and cancers (Brundha and Pathmashri, 2019; Rexlin, Preejitha and Brundha, 2020). Staying and performing regular life activities like sleeping and eating separately can affect the mental health and stability of an individual (Sen-Crowe, McKenney and Elkbuli, 2020), (Engle, Stromme and Zhou, no date).Our team has rich experience in research and we have collaborated with numerous authors over various topics in the past decade (Arigaet al., 2018; Basha, Ganapathy and Venugopalan, 2018; Hannah et al., 2018; Hussainyet al., 2018; Jeevanandan and Govindaraju, 2018; Kannan and Venugopalan, 2018; Kumar and Antony, 2018; Manohar and Sharma, 2018; Menon et al., 2018; Nandakumar and Nasim, 2018; Nandhini, Babu and Mohanraj, 2018; Ravinthar and Jayalakshmi, 2018; Seppanet al., 2018; Teja, Ramesh and Priya, 2018; Duraisamyet al., 2019; Gheena and Ezhilarasan, 2019; Hema Shree et al., 2019; Rajakeerthi and Ms, 2019; Rajendran et al., 2019; Sekaret al., 2019; Sharma et al., 2019; Siddique et al., 2019; Janani, Palanivelu and Sandhya, 2020; Johnson et al., 2020; Jose, Ajitha and Subbaiyan, 2020). Individual's details including age , gender , occupation were collected.The survey included 17 questions based on social distancing and if it was a good option as a mode of prevention and the inclusive criterias were age, sex, presence of any previous medical condition , awareness on COVID-19 and if preventive measures were followed.