Recent perspectives and awareness on transmission, clinical manifestation, quarantine measures, prevention and treatment
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Recent perspectives and awareness on transmission, clinical manifestation, quarantine measures, prevention and treatment of COVID-19 among people living in Malaysia in 2020 Alabed Ali A. Alabed 1 & Asita Elengoe 2
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Elan Selvi Anandan 3 & Abdullah Y. Almahdi 4
Received: 15 May 2020 / Accepted: 5 October 2020 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Background There is a major public health challenge threatening the world with the rapid spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which emerged in December 2019 from Wuhan, China. Objective The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice regarding COVID-19 and its transmission, causes and prevention among people living in Malaysia. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted among people living in Malaysia by using an online survey in March and April 2020. Results Out of 520 respondents, the mean age was 36.9 ± 14.9, between 19 and 67 years with the majority being female. Most respondents had good knowledge, attitude and practice towards COVID-19 with mean ± sd 18.2 ± 1.7, 5.2 ± 1.1 and 4.1 ± 1.4, respectively. In addition, the majority had good knowledge regarding cause, mode of transmission, signs and symptoms, prevention and treatment and quarantine measures after answering 21 questions. Conclusion To date, there is no specific treatment or vaccine for COVID-19, thus staying at home is the best preventive measure to curb the further growth of positive cases in the country. These findings could provide an insight in designing effective preparedness for future pandemic outbreaks. Keywords Knowledge . Attitude . Practice . COVID-19 . Malaysia
Introduction The epidemic of unknown acute respiratory tract infection first broke out at the Huanan South China Seafood Market in Wuhan City of Hubei Province, China on 12 December 2019 (Guo et al. 2019). Chinese scientists found that the unknown sample had >95% homology with the bat coronavirus
* Asita Elengoe [email protected] 1
Community Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Lincoln University College, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
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Biotechnology Department, Faculty of Science, Lincoln University College, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
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Physiology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Lincoln University College, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
4
Microbiology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Lincoln University College, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
and >70% similarity with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) on 7 January 2020 (Singhal 2020). Therefore, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that the novel coronavirus 2019 or SARS-CoV-2 was the cause of this outbreak and they named the disease COVID-19 (World Health Organization (WHO) 2020). SARS-CoV-2 is a β-coronavirus, which is an enveloped, non-segmented positive-sense, single-stranded RNA virus (Wang et al. 2020). As of 24 July 2020, a total of 15,651,911 coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases; 636,470 cases of deaths and 9,535,342 recovered cas
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