Parental Knowledge, attitude and practice about their children attending medical care at TASH regarding COVID-19 infection, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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2021-11
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Addis Abeba University
Abstract
Background: Covid-19 is one of the global public health crises. Resource limited
countries like Ethiopia are at risk of being severely affected by the pandemic. Children
of all ages can be affected by the virus and are one of the burdens of Covid-19
pandemic. As children accounts for majority of the population in Ethiopia, early
diagnosis and management of the disease is crucial to curb the spread of the disease.
Parents have a significant role in children’s health. Hence the aim of this study is to
assess parents’ knowledge, attitude and practice towards Covid-19 in children.
Methodology: A cross-sectional study was conducted at TASH located in Addis Ababa,
the capital city of Ethiopia from June to August 2021 G.C. Parents whose children were
admitted at TASH and parents who came to pediatric regular OPD and referral clinics
were used as a study population. An interview based questionnaire was used to gather
information from study participants. Data was entered using SPSS version 25 to be
analyzed based on the objectives of the study. A descriptive analysis was performed.
Inferential statistics were investigated using a chi-square test. P value less than 0.05
was considered as statistically significant.
Result: A total of 385 parents who fulfilled the inclusion criteria were enrolled. The
finding of this study reveal that majority of the participants (68.6%) have moderate
knowledge whereas 17.7% of participants have poor knowledge. Regarding attitude and
practice of parents, 68.3% of participants have good attitude and 51.7% of participants
have moderate practice. There was a moderate positive correlation between knowledge
score and attitude score (r=0.56, p<0.001), between knowledge score and practice
score (r=0.44, p<0.001) and between attitude score and practice score (r=0.43,
p<0.001).
Conclusion: The finding of this study suggests that knowledge and practice of parents
of children attending medical care at TASH towards COVID-19 in children was
moderate. Majority of the parents had good attitude. A considerable number of sociodemographic
characteristics
of participants affect the knowledge, attitude and practice
of parents towards COVID-19 in children.
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Parental Knowledge,Children,Medical care