Knowledge, Attitude and Practices towards COVID-19 Guidelines among Students in Bangladesh

Kumar, Bezon; Pinky, Susmita Dey; Nurudden, Ashike Md.

This paper explores the level of knowledge, attitude and practices of COVID-19 guidelines among the students in Bangladesh. In achieving this objective, this paper uses primary data collected from 1822 students and three different Likert scales and a one-way ANOVA test are used to assess knowledge, attitudes, and practice (KAP) scores and mean differences with respect to different variables. The research reveals that the majority of students have a higher level of knowledge and a positive attitude towards the COVID-19 guidelines. In contrary, only 0.22 percent students show strong compliance towards COVID-19 guidelines while majority students (60.54 percent) have rather a poor adherence which is an alarming finding. Reopening the educational institutions in Bangladesh is, therefore, not advisable yet and reinforcing the preventive measures through campaigns and online discussion to persuade people to follow the preventive guidelines is highly recommended to contain this global disease. What We Already Know Majority papers revealed the KAP of general people or medical related people. Majority people have moderate level of knowledge towards COVID-19. No research is found on KAP of the students in Bangladesh. What This Article Adds The KAP of COVID-19 guidelines among the students in Bangladesh. Majority students have the higher level of knowledge towards COVID-19 guideline among students. Only 0.22 percent students show strong compliance towards COVID-19 guidelines which recommends not reopening educational institutions now.