A Cross Section Assessment Study on the Awareness of COVID-19 during the Onset of the Pandemic among the Urban Population of Saudi Arabia
Muazzam Sheriff Maqbul
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Ibn Sina National College for Medical Studies, Al Mahjar Street: 31906, Jeddah 21418, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Muaadh Badr Saeed
Medicine Program, Ibn Sina National College for Medical Studies, Al Mahjar Street: 31906, Jeddah 21418, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Solafa Azzouz
Department of General Science, Ibn Sina National College for Medical Studies, Al Mahajar Street: 31906, Jeddah 21418, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Amal Bahafi
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Ibn Sina National College for Medical Studies, Al Mahajar Street: 31906, Jeddah 21418, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Tasneem Mohammed
Department of General Science, Ibn Sina National College for Medical Studies, Al Mahajar Street: 31906, Jeddah 21418, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Aejaz A. Khan
Department of General Science, Ibn Sina National College for Medical Studies, Al Mahajar Street: 31906, Jeddah 21418, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
S. M. Shakeel Iqubal *
Department of General Science, Ibn Sina National College for Medical Studies, Al Mahajar Street: 31906, Jeddah 21418, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Kayamkani Abedulla Khan
Department of Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacology, Ibn Sina National College for Medical Studies, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Ibrahim Ahmed Shaikh
Department of Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, Najran University, Najran, Saudi Arabia.
Uday M. Muddapur
Department of Biotechnology, KLE Technological University, Hubbali, Karnataka, India.
Moustafa Elsayed Abdelaziz Elsayed Elsaa
Medicine Program, Ibn Sina National College for Medical Studies, Al Mahjar Street: 31906, Jeddah 21418, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
This study was aimed to seek out the awareness and knowledge about the covid-19 during the onset of the pandemic among the urban population of the Saudi arabia. This study was carried out for a period of three months from 01.04.2020 to 31.07.2020 and a sample of 1000 participants. The significant difference of P-value obtained by performing the Pearson Chi-Square test for all he questionnaires to analyse the study of assessment. This study was a small attempt for conducting such valuable studies in preventive medicine. Thus, this study suggests that the community's overall satisfactory report is well aware of the preventive measure procedures and well prepared to tackle the covid-19 pandemic.
Keywords: COVID-19, urban population, cross section assessment, Saudi Arabia, pandemic.