Table 5.
Factors associated with Knowledge of Nurses towards COVID-19 in study area, 2020
| Variable | Category | Knowledge of nurses towards COVID-19 |
COR (95% CI) | AOR (95% CI) | pv | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good | Poor | |||||
| There currently is no effective cure for COVID-2019, but early symptomatic and supportive treatment can help most Patients recover from the infection |
True | 104 (0.8) | 24 (0.2) | .117 (.015-.896) | ||
| False | 1 (0.03) | 37 (0.97) | 1 | |||
| It is not necessary for children and young adults to take measures to prevent the infection by the COVID-19 virus | True | 62 (0.76) | 20 (0.24) | .196 (.007–.552) | ||
| False | 79 (0.94) | 5 (0.06) | 1 | |||
| Wearing general medical masks can prevent one from acquiring infection by theCOVID-19 virus. | True | 78 (0.76) | 24 (0.24) | 0.052 (.0.07–0.392) | 0.043 (0.005–0.362) | .004 |
| False | 63 (0.98) | 5 (0.02) | 1 | 1 | ||
| COVID-19 vaccine is available in markets | no | 117 (0.9) | 12 (0.1) | 5.28 (2.12–12.98) | ||
| yes | 24 (0.65) | 13 (0.35) | 1 | |||
| Antibiotics are the first-line treatment for COVID-19? | no | 117 (0.93) | 9 (0.07) | 8.66 (3.42–21.91) | ||
| yes | 24 (0.6) | 16 (0.4) | 1 | |||