Table 2.
Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of healthcare workers towards COVID-19 Outbreak in Nigeria.
| S/No | Knowledge about COVID-19 | Yes (%) | No (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aware that COVID - 19 can affect both humans and animals? | 269 (77.7) | 77 (22.3) |
| 2∗ | Suspected persons should be isolated in a proper place for 14 days. | 334 (96.5) | 12 (3.5) |
| 3 | Isolation and treatment of confirmed cases of SARS-COV-2 can curtail the spread of the virus. | Agree 318 (91.9) |
Disagree 28 (8.1) |
| 4 | believe that eating garlic or drinking much water can cure COVID -19? | 56 (16.2) | 290 (83.8) |
| 5 | Wearing of medical masks can help to prevent the infection by the COVID-19 virus. | 316 (91.3) | 30 (8.7) |
| 6 | Avoiding crowded places can prevent the spread of SARS-COV-2 infection. | 311 (89.9) | 35 (10.1) |
| 7∗ | There is no effective cure for COVID-19, but palliative treatments can help most patients recover from the disease | Agree 314 (90.8) |
Disagree 32 (9.2) |
| 8 | SARS-COV-2 can be spread by Droplets by people, Airborne, Direct hand contact, Indirect hand contact, and Hugging | 316 (91.3) | 30 (8.7) |
| Overall Mean knowledge score = 7.1 ± 0.45 | |||
| Attitudes towards COVID-19 | Positive (%) | Negative (%) | |
| 1 | Africans are immune to COVID – 19 virus infection because of their genetic makeup | 315 (91.0) | 31 (9.0) |
| 2 | SARS-COV-2 was invented to reduce the human population in Africa. | 319 (92.2) | 27 (7.8) |
| 3 | Do you have confidence that medical scientists can win the battle against the COVID-19 virus? | 320 (92.5) | 26 (7.5) |
| 4 | Prayer (faith healing) is the only cure for COVID-19 infection. | 271 (78.3) | 75 (21.7) |
| 5 | Should people be allowed to congregate in a large crowd at a place of worship? | 326 (94.2) | 20 (5.8) |
| 6 | COVID – 19 is a punishment from God because people sinned against God | 286 (82.7) | 60 (17.3) |
| Overall Mean Attitude score = 4.35 ± 0.79 | |||
| Practices towards COVID-19 | Good (%) | Poor (%) | |
| 1 | Do you wash your hands after handling a sick person/animal? | 340 (98.3) | 6 (1.7) |
| 2 | Do you wash your hands after handling your pet or companion animal? | 332 (96.0) | 14 (4.0) |
| 3 | Do you wear protective clothing when handling a specimen from a person with sings of dry cough, sneezing, and fever? | 317 (91.6) | 29 (8.4) |
| 4 | How do you cough? | 313 (90.5) | 33 (9.5) |
| 5 | Do you wear a mask when leaving home? | 205 (59.2) | 141 (40.8) |
| Overall Mean Practice score = 5.31 ± 0.39 |
• Adapted from Zhong et al., 2020.