Issue: 2020, Vol. 25, No. 3-4

N. N. Uglanova, D. L. Мushnikov, B. А. Polyakov

KNOWLEDGE LEVEL AND MOTIVATION TO COVID-19 PREVENTION IN MEDICAL STUDENTS

Keywords

coronavirus, new coronavirus infection, COVID-19, knowledge level, student, prophylaxis, motivation.

Abstarct

Students are related to special risk groups taking into consideration the provision of epidemiological safety in new coronavirus infection. Complete knowledge level upon the new disease is extremely important in human choice of correct health prevention behavior. Objective – to study the knowledge level upon the questions of new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) prevention in medical students. Material and methods. 350 students (General Medicine department and Pediatrics department) of Ivanovo State Medical Academy were enrolled in the study in September, 2020. The questionnaire included 37 closed and opened questions. The processing program was based upon relative magnitudes calculation with applied computer programs application. Results and discussion. The knowledge level in the field of new coronavirus infection prophylaxis was not sufficient in medical students: 4% of them did not know the ways of this infection expansion, 80,0% underestimated the disease danger, 19% did not follow prevention indication, 25,5% did not know the measures procedure in suspicion of COVID-19 contamination. The majority of the respondents (78 %) found the term «new coronavirus infection» in social networks at first, and it implicated to have some risk of gaining doubtful and incomplete information. But 42,0 % of the students wanted to heighten their knowledge level, to gain some additional information upon the new coronavirus infection. Supplementary thematic lectures by infectiologists and epidemiologists might be delivered, mass media and visual aids might be used in order to improve the knowledge level upon the problem.

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