The relationships between knowledge and perception with preventive behaviors of COVID-19 infection among nursing students
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Background: Prevention of COVID-19 infection in educational institutions is crucial. Students need to have proper knowledge and perception of COVID-19 to prevent the infection of the COVID-19 virus effectively.
Objectives: To examine the relationship between knowledge and perception of COVID-19 infection in relation to preventive behaviors among nursing students.
Methods: This is a descriptive study. The samples were 293 nursing students. The research instruments consisted of 1) test of COVID-19 knowledge that was checked by the experts for the IOC (0.67-1.00), determined with KR20, and the questions with discriminatory power and difficulty according to the evaluation criteria were selected, 2) questionnaires about the perception and COVID-19 preventive behavior with I-CVI = .67, S-CVI = .96, and the Alpha Cronbach coefficient = .86 and .91, respectively. Descriptive statistics and Spearman rank correlation were used to analyze the data.
Results: The results showed that knowledge had no significant association with preventive behaviors for the COVID-19 infection; whereas perception of the COVID-19 infection was statistically significantly associated with preventive behaviors (r = 0.517, p<.01). Perceived self-efficacy, perceived benefits of prevention, perceived risk, and perceived severity significantly correlated with the prevention of COVID-19 infection at p<.01 (r = .664, .546, .525, and .515, respectively).
Conclusions: Perception of the COVID-19 infection is associated with preventive behaviors; therefore, co-curricular activities to raise awareness of nursing students in monitoring and prevention of COVID-19 should be conducted.
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