TY - JOUR AU - Ho, Thanh-Tung AU - A Al-Samhari, Galal AU - Lin, Jun-Jie AU - Luo, Jing-Jing AU - Jiang, Yueming PY - 2022/10/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards COVID-19 among residents of Quang Binh, Vietnam JF - The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries JA - J Infect Dev Ctries VL - 16 IS - 10 SE - Coronavirus Pandemic DO - 10.3855/jidc.16833 UR - https://jidc.org/index.php/journal/article/view/36332211 SP - 1588-1595 AB - <p>Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic is raging worldwide; the number of new cases and deaths is increasing daily. This study aims to examine the knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) toward COVID-19 among residents of Quang Binh, Vietnam.</p><p>Methodology: A cross-sectional study was conducted between the 1<sup>st</sup> and 10<sup>th</sup> of March 2022 in Quang Binh with 413 participants through convenience sampling. A self-designed questionnaire was used for data collection, using SPSS (IBM Corp, Armonk, NY) version 26.0 for management and analysis.</p><p>Results: Among the 413 participants, 80.5% of participants had good knowledge about COVID-19. Kinh people and those with a high level of education have higher odds of having good knowledge. 78.2% of participants had a positive attitude and 78.2% had good practice toward COVID-19. Knowledge-Practice scores and Attitude-Practice scores have a positive correlation. TV (65.4%) and the internet (66.6%) are the most popular channels for information about COVID-19. Common barriers for participants taking COVID-19 prevention measures were "due to the demands of life" (61%) or "due to the specificity of the work" (47.7%).</p><p>Conclusions: Residents of Quang Binh have a moderate KAP towards COVID-19. Health education programs are needed to improve knowledge about COVID-19 among Quang Binh residents, with a focus on ethnic minorities and people with low levels of education.</p> ER -