Objective: To assess the knowledge, attitude and practice toward coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Background: The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as a pandemic on the 11th of March 2020 and declared as a global health emergency. Since then, many efforts are being carried out to control the rapid spread of the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic in India. The control measures COVID-19 is affected by their knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) towards COVID-19. Knowledge attitude and practice of people should be directed towards strict preventive practices in order to prevents the spread of the virus. Materials and Methods: The aim of the current electronic cross-sectional study is to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice among selected rural community. Structured questionnaire was created in the google forms, the link was generated and distributed among the people though email and other media to participate in the survey. A total 153 subject was enrolled through convenient sampling technique. Collected data was analysed using descriptive statistics including frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation. Results: Majority of participant (91.50%) were having the adequate information regarding the covid-19 and most of participants, 52.28% were got the information from multimedia included television, radio and newspaper regarding COVID 19. About 52.28% participants were the aware about the online training program by the government .Among 153 participants, 115 had adequate knowledge, 23 had moderately adequate and 15 had inadequate knowledge. Most (75.16%) of the participants had adequate knowledge, in 15.03 % moderately adequate and in 9.80% % inadequate knowledge found regarding prevention of COVID-19. The mean knowledge score was 15.54 with standard deviation of 2.93. Most of the 102 (66.66%) had most favourable attitude, 31(20.26) had favourable and 20(13.07%) had unfavourable attitude . The mean attitude score was 34.76 with standard deviation of 2.86.Majority of the participants, 129 had good practice, 20 had average practice and 4 had bad practice . Most (84.31%) of the participants had good practice, in 13.07 % average practice and in 2.61 % bad practice found regarding prevention of COVID-19. The mean practice score was 25.2 with standard deviation of 2.56.
COVID19, knowledge, attitude, practice, Electronic rural community, survey
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