Knowledge and Anxiety about COVID-19 in the State of Qatar, and the Middle East and North Africa Region-A Cross Sectional Study.
COVID-19
anxiety
health information
knowledge
misinformation
Journal
International journal of environmental research and public health
ISSN: 1660-4601
Titre abrégé: Int J Environ Res Public Health
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101238455
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
14 Jun 2021
14 Jun 2021
Historique:
received:
25
04
2021
revised:
10
06
2021
accepted:
11
06
2021
entrez:
2
7
2021
pubmed:
3
7
2021
medline:
8
7
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
While the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic wreaked havoc across the globe, we have witnessed substantial mis- and disinformation regarding various aspects of the disease. We conducted a cross-sectional study using a self-administered questionnaire for the general public (recruited via social media) and healthcare workers (recruited via email) from the State of Qatar, and the Middle East and North Africa region to understand the knowledge of and anxiety levels around COVID-19 (April-June 2020) during the early stage of the pandemic. The final dataset used for the analysis comprised of 1658 questionnaires (53.0% of 3129 received questionnaires; 1337 [80.6%] from the general public survey and 321 [19.4%] from the healthcare survey). Knowledge about COVID-19 was significantly different across the two survey populations, with a much higher proportion of healthcare workers possessing better COVID-19 knowledge than the general public (62.9% vs. 30.0%,
Identifiants
pubmed: 34198649
pii: ijerph18126439
doi: 10.3390/ijerph18126439
pmc: PMC8296266
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
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