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Knowledge, Attitude and Hygiene Practices Regarding Covid-19 among Retailers of Dhaka City

Esrat Zarin Lisa , Tania Ahmed Chowdhury , Dr. Mohammad Jahangir Alam


International Journal of Rural Development, Environment and Health Research(IJREH), Vol-9,Issue-1, January - March 2025, Pages 1-10, 10.22161/ijreh.9.1.1

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Article Info: Received: 29 Nov 2024; Received in revised form: 22 Dec 2024; Accepted: 03 Jan 2025; Available online: 10 Jan 2025

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The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic was one of the major disruptive events that challenged human existence. It broke the supply chain system and weakened the global economy. It tremendously cut the global health system and killed millions of people worldwide. However, the overall health consequences of COVID-19 were not the same in all the affected megacities worldwide; depending on their knowledge and attitude and their practices on preventive measures, the people of different megacities suffered from COVID-19 at various levels. This scenario has created the ground for this study to check people’s knowledge, attitude, and practices on hygiene practices in Dhaka City during this pandemic. It accommodated the responses of 250 respondents and followed quantitative analysis that approached descriptive analysis, mean score, and correlation of variables with the application of SPSS to generate the expected outcome of the study. Results of the study found that retailers of Dhaka city scored 0.656 (range: -1 to 1); 3.639 (range: 1 to 5) and 1.944 (range: 1 to 3) on knowledge, attitude and practice toward COVID -19 respectively. It also revealed a positive correlation between the knowledge, attitude, and practices (KAP) of the people of Dhaka City on health hygiene during this invasion. A significant positive correlation was observed between knowledge with attitudes (rs= 0.499, p < 0.05), knowledge with practice (rs= 0.419, p < 0.05), and attitudes with practice (rs= 0.474, p < 0.05). 25% of the time the knowledge of the shop retailers influences their attitude and practices by 18% of the time, and their attitude influences practices by 22%. This means a higher knowledge level about COVID-19 has a significant association with a positive attitude and good practices of health hygiene maintenance during the COVID-19 pandemic. This significance implies an urgency for effective health education efforts to raise awareness against any pandemic like COVID-19. Thus, the findings will encourage and inform decision-makers and program implementers to promote their preventive measures against any pandemic like COVID-19 in the future.

KAP, COVID-19, attitude, Dhaka City, health hygiene, retailer.

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