Knowledge, attitudes and practices related to Covid-19 among health professionals in El Jadida Province, Morocco.
Rocz Panstw Zakl Hig
; 73(4): 475-483, 2022.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2205913
ABSTRACT
Background:
During the COVID-19 pandemic, concerns were raised about the lack of knowledge and awareness of health workers (HW) in hampering the implementation of COVID-19 preventive strategies in hospitals.Objective:
This cross-sectional study aims to explore the knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of the health workers related to COVID-19 in Moroccan hospitals and health facilities. Materials andmethods:
We administered an adapted questionnaire to 242 HW working in Azemmour and El Jadida hospital (two sites) and in 41 health centers in El Jadida province. We carried out a bivariate analysis and used contingency tables and logistic regression models to identify factors associated with different KAP levels.Results:
We found that 90.1%, 8.3% and 60.3% of HW had respectively high levels of knowledge, risk perception attitudes and preventive practices towards COVID-19. High level of knowledge was associated with gender (OR 0.267; 95% CI 0.113-0.634; p=0.002), and professional profile (p<0.001). Levels of attitudes were associated with gender (OR 17.143; 95% CI 5.450-53.932; p<0.001) whereas levels of preventive practices were associated with position of the HW in COVID-19 (frontline or not frontline) (OR 0.404; 95% CI 0.236-0.691; p=0.001) and the overworked status of the HW (OR 0.421; 95% CI 0.242-0.730; p=0.002).Conclusion:
Professionals' knowledge and practice levels were higher than their COVID-19 risk perception attitudes. Therefore, efforts should be made to improve the attitudes of health professionals.Keywords
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Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
COVID-19
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Randomized controlled trials
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Africa
Language:
English
Journal:
Rocz Panstw Zakl Hig
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Rpzh.2022.0235
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