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Awareness On Social Distancing During Pandemic Disease Among College Students - A Survey
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NGOUBINAH PRETTY TM, V.VISHNU PRIYA, HANNAH.R, R.GAYATHRI
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Pandemic are large-scale outbreaks of infectious disease that can greatly increase morbidity and mortality over a wide geographic area and cause significant economic; social; and political disruption. Awareness of the presence of illness can cause people to change their behaviour by staying at home and avoiding social contact. A well structured questionnaire comprising 16 questions covering socio-demographic information,knowledge,attitude, perception was framed and distributed to the participant through online google form link. The data were collected and statistically analysed using SPSS software,The results were collected and reported that more than half of the participants were aware of social distancing during pandemic disease. And they were also aware that lockdowns affect the life of people to a large extent. People were aware that washing hands, social distancing, maintaining proper hygiene,can prevent pandemic disease. More research is required into the pandemic disease in detail. Awareness camps,workshops may be conducted to create awareness on social distancing in pandemic condition.
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Social distancing; pandemic; handwash; N-95mask; COVID 19.
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2020.SP2.101
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