Table 2.
Health care workers’ (HCWs) knowledge regarding COVID-19.
| Statements about knowledge | Responses by HCWs (N=434), n (%) | ||
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True | False | I don’t know |
| The common symptoms of COVID-19 are fever, fatigue, and dry cough. | 414 (95.4) | 13 (3.0) | 7 (1.6) |
| The causative agent of COVID-19 is coronavirus. | 410 (94.4) | 12 (2.8) | 12 (2.8) |
| The incubation period of COVID-19 is 2 to 14 days. | 404 (93.1) | 21 (4.8) | 9 (2.1) |
| Not all persons with COVID-19 will develop severe cases. Only those who are elderly and have chronic illnesses are likely to be severe cases. | 390 (89.9) | 33 (7.6) | 11 (2.5) |
| COVID-19 can be transmitted through direct contact of respiratory droplets when infected persons cough or sneeze. | 394 (90.8) | 28 (6.4) | 12 (2.8) |
| The disease can be transmitted from asymptomatic patients. | 397 (91.5) | 26 (6.0) | 11 (2.5) |
| Training and observation of standard precautionary measures are required by caregiving personnel in suspected and probable cases of COVID-19 infection. | 392 (90.3) | 30 (6.9) | 12 (2.8) |
| Visitors to patients with suspected, probable, and confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection should be limited, both in hospital and at home. | 406 (93.6) | 22 (5.1) | 6 (1.3) |
| The disease can be spread by people touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth or nose or possibly their eyes. | 401 (92.4) | 22 (5.1) | 11 (2.5) |
| Isolation and treatment of people who are infected with the COVID-19 virus are effective ways to reduce the spread of the virus. | 404 (93.1) | 23 (5.3) | 7 (1.6) |
| People who have contact with someone infected with the COVID-19 virus should be immediately isolated in a proper place. In general, the observation period is 14 days. | 400 (92.2) | 24 (5.5) | 10 (2.3) |
| A person with mild symptoms of COVID-19 must remain at home until resolution of clinical symptoms. | 398 (91.7) | 30 (6.9) | 6 (1.4) |
| Standard precautions should be followed by health care providers in dealing with suspected, probable, and confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection. | 395 (91.0) | 29 (6.7) | 10 (2.3) |
| Oxygen therapy should be given to all cases of severe COVID-19 with acute respiratory infection. | 369 (85.0) | 54 (12.5) | 11 (2.5) |
| Ventilation with an endotracheal tube must be carried out in patients with confirmed and/or suspected COVID-19 with clinical manifestations of acute respiratory distress symptoms. | 379 (87.3) | 40 (9.2) | 15 (3.5) |