A survey-based study on the knowledge, attitude, and the practices pertaining to the 2019 novel Corona Virus infection amongst undergraduate medical students in India

Latika Gupta; Vishwesh Agarwal; Samira Davalbhakta; Vikas Agarwal; Durga Misra

Overall, the questionnaire featured 33 questions most of which were multichoice. While three questions were to identify respondent characteristics, 13 and 17 belonged to the factual and opinion set respectively. Likert scale was used to record responses in the opinion set. The average time taken by reach individual to complete the survey was eight minutes. The respondents could change the answers before submission but not after it. All questions were mandatory. Internet Protocol address checks were done to avoid duplicated responses from a single respondent. Three professors and one undergraduate medical student reviewed the questions and confirmed them to be representative of the content validity of the survey. The survey underwent three rounds of cross-fill to check for errors in wording, grammar or syntax. Correct responses were obtained from the Centre of Disease Control [10] .