Table 1.
Sociodemographics, knowledge, attitude and practices of students towards COVID-19
| List of predictors | Category of variables | Frequency (n) | % |
| Age of participants (in years) | 16–20 | 166 | 40.7 |
| >20 | 242 | 59.3 | |
| Residence | Urban | 253 | 62.0 |
| Rural | 155 | 38.0 | |
| Sex of participants | Male | 214 | 52.5 |
| Female | 194 | 47.5 | |
| Marital status | Single* | 360 | 88.2 |
| Married | 48 | 11.8 | |
| Religion of participants | Orthodox | 207 | 50.7 |
| Muslim | 183 | 44.9 | |
| Others† | 18 | 4.4 | |
| Type of educational enrolment | TVET (diploma) | 215 | 52.7 |
| Degree (first) | 193 | 47.3 | |
| Programme | Regular | 377 | 92.4 |
| Evening (extension) | 31 | 7.6 | |
| Field of study | Health-related | 233 | 57.1 |
| Business-related | 129 | 31.6 | |
| Technology-related | 46 | 11.3 | |
| Academic year | Year 1 | 151 | 37.0 |
| Year 2 | 180 | 44.1 | |
| Year 3 | 58 | 14.2 | |
| Year 4+ | 19 | 4.7 | |
| Living with | Families | 340 | 83.3 |
| Relatives | 28 | 6.9 | |
| Alone | 21 | 5.1 | |
| Others‡ | 19 | 4.7 | |
| Total family size (including extended families) | <5 | 198 | 48.5 |
| 5+ | 210 | 51.5 | |
| Monthly income for education (in Ethiopian birr) | <1000 | 349 | 85.5 |
| 1000–1500 | 47 | 11.5 | |
| >1500 | 12 | 2.9 | |
| Knowledge level of students towards COVID-19 | Poor | 124 | 30.4 |
| Good | 284 | 69.6 | |
| Attitude towards COVID-19 | Negative | 178 | 35.0 |
| Positive | 230 | 65.0 | |
| Practice towards preventive measures against COVID-19 | Poor | 143 | 43.6 |
| Good | 265 | 56.4 |
*Single: living together, divorced and widowed.
†Others: Protestant and Catholic.
‡Others: friends, sisters-in-law/sons-in-law.