Practices, Attitudes, and Knowledge towards COVID-19 among North-Indian Residents during the outbreak of the COVID-19
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There have been several measures adopt to manage the increase of COVID-19 in India. To combat the COVID-19 Pandemic faced by the nation, Govt. of India has in employ gigantic amount of procedures like Lockdown, aggressive testing, infusing funds to improve the financial system, present incentives to various sectors, promoting digital dealings, e-learning, etc. The challenge remains the acceptance and adoption of these by people of India. The need will be to educate people about this epidemic and increase their knowledge in the direction of it so that extend of the same can be slowed down. Majority people have not only to change their practices but also their attitude towards life. The lifestyles are bound to be affected due to COVID-19 across India. Through this study we will try to gauge on these aspects. For this a survey on people of Tricity (Chandigarh/ Mohali/ Panchkula) was conducted. The questionnaire included 20 questions to assess the understanding of the residents on the measures adopted for the prevention of disease and what they are doing on their own to come out of this. The study is based on their confidence level, knowledge level and the practices they are adopting towards this epidemic. The study found not too high levels of knowledge scores of the respondents. However, the results showed high levels of confidence and practices followed in such situation. The results of the demographic analysis revealed the knowledge scores showed significant differences existed between the groups based on gender and age. However, no significant differences are found for attitude and practices across the groups based on gender and age.
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