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Introduction: The community understands, practice and attitude of COVID-19 had an impact on their adherence to preventive actions. This study looked on the community knowledge, attitudes, and practises regarding COVID-19 during the pandemic in rural area of Gwalior District in Madhya Pradesh. Material Methods: This was a cross sectional study conducted in rural area of Gwalior among 500 Participants. Percentage, Proportion was calculated, Chi square test was applied. Binary logistic regression was applied. Risk Ratio (OR) and Adjusted Odds Ratio (AOR) with their 95% CI was calculated . A p-value of less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant at 95% confidence level. Statistical analysis of the data was carried out using SPSS Windows version 16.0. Result: In the present study 343(68%) Participant had good knowledge of every aspect of Covid-19 Pandemic. The participants who belonged to Joint family were having Excellent Knowledge. The Age group (25-45) years (AOR: 8.77), OBC Caste Category (AOR: 1.11), Nuclear Family (AOR:1.82) were emerged as significant risk for Poor Knowledge. In the present study 431(86%) participants were having Good Attitude. The Age group (25-45) years had less risk for poor attitude (AOR- 0.24);SC/ST Category were found to had less risk for Poor Attitude (AOR-0.14). The Participants who were involved in Agriculture (AOR-0.15) and Labourer (AOR- 0.23) were at Low Risk for Poor Attitude & Nuclear Family were at less risk for Poor Attitude (AOR- 0.42). While 446(89%) Participants were having Good Practice. The participant which belonged to Hindu Religion, SC/ST category and Joint family were having good practices Farmers and literate participant also had good practice Conclusion: This was the first investigation of KAP's role in the COVID-19 outbreak among rural population of Gwalior. According to this study research, Age Group (25-45) years, Joint Family had a strong understanding of COVID-19 and Males, SC/ST category participants and Nuclear family, had favourable attitude and Practice about it. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Journal of Cardiovascular Disease Research (Journal of Cardiovascular Disease Research) is the property of Journal of Cardiovascular Disease Research and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)
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Introduction: The Covid-19 pandemic caused devastation among the people living all over the world somewhere a little bit and somewhere major. Previous researches ignores Rural Population of India where most of the people residing. This study was conducted specifically to measure impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Rural population of field practice area Barai in Gwalior. Material and Method: Between January 1 and December 31, 2021, 500 individuals were involved in the current descriptive cross-sectional study, which was done in the rural field practise area of the rural health training centre in Barai, Gwalior and M.P. Calculations for percentage and proportion were made, and the Chi square test was used. Both multivariable logistic regression and binary logistic regression were used. Their 95% CI was used to determine the risk ratio (OR). At the 5% level of significance, P value was observed. Software called SPSS-22 was used for data analysis. Results: In the present study 94.6% do not had any availability of food supply, 2.6% were removed from their jobs. The risk factors associated with the worse impact were occupation and type of family. As compare with the businessman the persons involved in the agriculture (OR: 2.993;95% CI: 1.158-7.734) and labour (OR: 3.529;95% CI: 1.250-9.961) were at higher risk. As compared with the joint family participants having Nuclear family were prone to have worse impact of COVID-19 both in univariate (OR: 3.180 ;95% CI: 1.728-5.855) and multivariate analysis (OR: 3.483;95% CI: 1.757-6.905). Conclusion: A significant portion of the population was severely impacted by the COVID-19 epidemic in terms of economic, social, and psychological factors. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Journal of Cardiovascular Disease Research (Journal of Cardiovascular Disease Research) is the property of Journal of Cardiovascular Disease Research and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)
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The novel Coronavirus outbreak was originated from Wuhan, China, was first reported in India on 30th January 2020. The impact of an epidemic depends on the number of persons infected, infection transmissibility and the spectrum of clinical severity. To determine the impact of outbreak, analysis of the existing record was done. The objective of this study was to determine the demographic factors, case fatality rate, its association and trend was observed among positive cases reported in Gwalior district. Covid-19 related data collected at the IDSP unit of Gwalior District was analysed. A total of 11281 case reported between 30th March to 11th October was included and their recorded data was analysed using mean, median, chi-square test and logistic regression analysis. The study shows that Mean age of the cases was 39.95±16.75 while their median age was 38.0 (27.0-52.0). Maximum cases were in the age group of 21-30 (25.6%). On assessing the current status, 94.7% patients were discharged from isolation/treatment facility, 4% case were active while 1.3% died. Risk Ratio (Odds Ratio) for death was calculated for different characteristics. It was concluded from the present study that the outcome of disease was found statistically significant in age groups, residence in containment area and isolation status among patients by using logistic regression analysis. Also, no gender predilection of the disease and its mortality.
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Background: Studies of pandemics in past centuries have suggested that the second wave was always more lethal and devastating as compared to the first wave. Regarding coronavirus disease (COVID) pandemic also, various speculations were made that during the second wave virus changes its nature either for age structure, gender or rural-urban differential. Present study was aimed to compare the demographic and mortality profile of COVID-19 patients during the two waves. Materials and Methods: A total of 51,425 individuals with 16,538 cases from first wave and 34,887 cases from the second wave were included in the study. Frequency, percentage, case fatality rate (CFR) and OR (95% CI) were calculated. Level of significance was considered at 5%. Results: Maximum cases were observed in the age group 21-30 years (23.7%). During the first wave, 29.5% females were infected while during the second wave 38.5% females were infected. Infection in rural areas increased to 5.7% as compared to 4.8% in the first wave. Among the females, CFR increased to 37% in second wave which was 25.2% in the first wave. Disease load was at its peak in the month of April 2021. Conclusion: During the second wave, infection rate and mortality were higher in females and patients residing in rural areas showing extension of community spread. Patients with age above 50 years succumbed more. Occurrence of more than two-fifth of the cases in a single month (April 2021) shows a need for better planning for the supposed third wave to tackle any unwanted situation.