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Awareness On Self Care Practices To Be Taken To Avoid Covid-19 Infection Among Urban Population Of Chennai-A Survey
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ARUN KISHORE.RN, R.GAYATHRI, R.GAYATRI DEVI, V.VISHNU PRIYA
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Introduction: Recently the world's news is all about the Coronavirus pandemic. The novel coronavirus was discovered in Wuhan, China. It is a dangerous virus which has spread all over the world causing a pandemic. The lockdown has affected the world in almost all the aspects, mentally, socially, economically. People are made aware of the symptoms and self practice instructions to be taken to avoid the spread of novel corona outbreak.The aim of the survey was to evaluate the awareness of the self care practices taken by the urban population of Chennai to prevent COVID 19 infection. Material and Method: An online survey was conducted among urban adult population of Chennai to evaluate the knowledge, awareness of the self care practices to be taken to avoid COVID 19 infection .The study population was the adult urban population of Chennai, with a sample size of 225. The questionnaire consisted of 12 questions and was shared to the participants using online survey platform. The study was conducted in the month of may, 2020. The statistics done using SPSS software, chi square test was done to check the association and a p value of 0.05 was said to be statistically significant. Result:72.44% of the respondents were aware of self care practises to be taken to avoid COVID 19 infection. Majority of the participants were aware of symptoms and precautions to be taken if affected by COVID-19 and also found that both male and female participants were equally aware of the self care practices(p-value>0.05). Conclusion: From the survey, it was evident that urban adult population of Chennai are well aware of the self care practices to be taken to avoid COVID-19 infection and it was also found that both male and female participants were equally aware of the self care practices.
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Coronavirus, self practices, awareness, knowledge.
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2020.SP2.189
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