Awareness about COVID-19 symptoms and rout of transmission
In general the responses to the awareness questions regarding symptoms
and route of transmission of COVID-19 were displayed in table (2). It
shows that the majority of the respondents 496 (72.51%) were correctly
identified its typical symptoms. While in regard to routes of
transmission, most of the participants 524 (76.6%) show awareness about
the disease’s route of transmission correctly, although the differences
between males and females regarding the awareness were not statistically
significant (P -value >0.05).
Almost all respondents had heard that the numbers of infected
individuals are increasing worldwide. The majority of the studied
subjects (75.1%) were satisfied with the quality and quantity of
information that available and accessible for them at Saudi ministry of
health official web site. Regarding knowledge about route of
transmission of COVID-19, the most cited route of transmission by
participants was through sneezing or coughing and personal contact
(46%), followed by through contaminated objects outdoors (31%), and
airborne transmission route was cited by (18%) of the participants,
while only 5% don’t know.
The results of the one-way ANOVA as shown in table (3) reveals a
significant difference between the means of students’ health seeking
behaviors according to their levels of information about COVID-19
[F(3-277) =4.286, P -value <0.05]
based on their own perceptions respectively.
Table (4) reflects the overall significant predictors of awareness,
preventive measures and health seeking behaviors towards COVID-19. It
shows that medical students were significantly have higher level of
awareness, compliance with preventive measures and of course for health
seeking behaviors (P -value < 0.05). In comparison
between males and females in regard to health seeking behaviors, the
results surprisingly reveal that females have positive behaviors towards
health seeking attitudes than males.