Abstract: Background: Presently, people are all living in a more and more fast-paced and ever-changing world. We are all concerned with citizen’s live and health due to the increasing of disease. Covid-19 is now as seen as a dramatic viral outbreak, more than millions of world’s populations are killed. Student, one of the society’s members, are in at crucial risk under the situation of virus transmission. The attitude, knowledge, and risk perception of student will definitely presume an outcome towards precaution of Covid-19 pandemic.
Objectives: To study knowledge, attitude, risk perception, and preventive behaviors against Coronavirus 2019 amongst a representative sample of high schoolers of Saint’s Gabriel’s College (grade 10-12) who living in Bangkok. Furthermore, to get any ideas on how to promote preventive behavior oppose to the expansion of Covid-19.
Design: Cross-sectional online survey via Google Form during May, 2021. The descriptive statistics and correlation coefficient were applied for data analysis.
Participants: 1,575 volunteered students of grade 10-12 who registered at Saint Gabriel’s College in year 2021.
Results: 319 responses were received. The greatest number of responders were the age group of 17, live in a family with no dependent and no medical conditions while already get vaccinated against flu. Also, most participants considered their health condition to be at moderate level. Correlation coefficient showed that knowledge of COVID-19 and attitude on prevention of COVID-19 had a positive link on preventive behavior against COVID-19. From the analysis of GLM, it was revealed that attitude on prevention of COVID-19 and knowledge of COVID-19 could predict preventive behavior against COVID-19, which was also statistically significant. The statistical result of this research presented that the majority of high school students who are studying in grade 10-12 had a high understanding and knowledge of COVID-19 with a positive attitude towards preventive manners against COVID-19. Furthermore, most of them was at good level of preventive behavior and high level of risk perception to COVID-19 pandemic.
Conclusion: Even though, the study showed the high knowledge score and the positive attitude, the risk perception is only in moderate level. Thus, to narrow down Covid-19 expansion to the student in their daily life, the attitude and risk perception on prevention of this vial outbreak should be promoted and well communicated in diverse channels to update the student on current situations.
Keywords: COVID-19, COVID-19 Preventive Behavior, Students.
Title: Knowledge, Attitude and COVID-19 Preventive Behaviour among grade 10-12 students in Bangkok
Author: Preechapong Nilpetch
International Journal of Healthcare Sciences
ISSN 2348-5728 (Online)
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