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Published: 2020-12-29

Knowledge, attitude, and practice towards COVID-19 among Syrian people resident in Turkey

Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Bezmialem Vakif University, Istanbul, Turkey
World Health Organization, WHO Country Office, VEFA Center, of. № 605, 6th floor 37/1 Bokhtar Street, Dushanbe 734019, Tajikistan
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Anbar University, Anbar, Iraq
Department of Anatomy, Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Diyala, Diyala, Iraq
World Health Organization, Headquarters in Geneva, Department of Health Governance and Financing, Avenue Appia 20, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Faculty of Pharmacy, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Department of Surgery, Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Misurata University, National Cancer Institute, Misurata, Libya.
COVID-19, Knowledge, Attitude, Practice, Displaced, Refugees, Resident, Syrian people, Turkey

Abstract

Background: Measuring knowledge, attitude, and practice towards COVID-19 helps policymakers observe knowledge gaps and provide key messages to people to act better against the pandemic. This study aims to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice towards COVID-19 among Syrian people resident in Turkey. 

Methods: A cross-sectional study designed to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice towards COVID-19 among the Syrian people resident in Turkey. The data were collected via a web-based and self-administered questionnaire of 313 participants from 17-31 July 2020. SPSS version 16.0 was recruited to analyze the data using univariate and multivariable regression data analyses.

Results: Our finding as the first study among Syrian people resident in Turkey found a high rate of good knowledge, attitude, and practice towards COVID-19 accordingly with 83.0%, 72.0%, 84.0%. Regression analysis showed that age-group of 45 years and more years, marital status of being married, female gender, living in urban area were significantly associated with upper knowledge score. Age-group of 45 years and more significantly associated with positive attitude score but inversely being married and unemployed statues significantly associated with a negative attitude. Regarding practice score, married and female people had better practice, but poor-rated health status was significantly associated with the weak practice.

Conclusion: Although our finding showed a good rate for knowledge, attitude, and practice towards COVID-19, but it needs to improve cause of many barriers on Syrian people resident in Turkey, such as living in a crowded place, distant from health care services, losing whole or part of their income due to COVID-19 as an economic crisis, different language barriers. Some groups like men, people living in a rural area, and those unemployed or lost their job should be exposed by timely and accurate knowledge.



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Ali Jadoo SA, Dastan I, Al-Samarrai MAM, Yaseen SM, Abbasi A, Alkhdar H, Al Saad M, Danfour OM. Knowledge, attitude, and practice towards COVID-19 among Syrian people resident in Turkey. jidhealth [Internet]. 2020 Dec. 29 [cited 2024 Mar. 29];3(Special2):278-85. Available from: https://www.jidhealth.com/index.php/jidhealth/article/view/61