Knowledge and practices towards COVID-19 during its outbreak: a multinational cross-sectional study

Abdallah Y Naser; Eman Zmaily Dahmash; Hassan Alwafi; Zahra Khalil Alsairafi; Ahmed M. Al Rajeh; Yosra J Alhartani; Fawaz Mohammad Turkistani; Hamad S. Alyami

is the (which was not peer-reviewed) The copyright holder for this preprint . https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.13.20063560 doi: medRxiv preprint findings with Arabic-speaking countries of a similar socioeconomic level and culture. In this study we employed a quantitative methodology with pre-set responses, which might not have allowed participants' views to provide varied but useful qualitative information. In addition, we used an online survey for data collection and therefore, some vulnerable populations within the three countries under the COVID-19 pandemic could not be reached and we may have missed some of the targeted population. However, we tackled this by distributing the survey among three different countries and widely used the social media. Finally, we were not able to estimate the response rate for our questionnaire study.