The knowledge, attitude and practices of COVID-19: a survey among medical students in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia Public Medical Schools
COVID-19 has affected university medical students, resulting in the new norm of learning and practice. Understanding these students’ knowledge, attitude and their practice would be essential as they would serve as the future doctor in Malaysia. The study attempted to evaluate medical students’ k...
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
2022
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/97581/7/97581_The%20knowledge%2C%20attitude%20and%20practices%20of%20COVID-19.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/97581/13/97581_The%20knowledge%2C%20attitude%20and%20practices%20of%20COVID-19_Scopus.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/97581/ https://eduimed.usm.my/EIMJ20221401/EIMJ20221401_06.pdf |
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| Summary: | COVID-19 has affected university medical students, resulting in the new norm of learning and practice.
Understanding these students’ knowledge, attitude and their practice would be essential as they would
serve as the future doctor in Malaysia. The study attempted to evaluate medical students’ knowledge,
attitude and practice (KAP) in the east coast states of Peninsular Malaysia. An online and multi centre
cross-sectional study was undertaken among all the three public medical schools in the east coast
region of Peninsular Malaysia, between 8th July to 21st July 2020. The questionnaire consisted of
sociodemographic data and the three domains which included COVID-19 KAP. Students were invited
to participate via social media platform such as WhatsApp and students’ email. A total of 1,008 medical
students voluntarily participated in the study with female to male ratio of 2.6:1. A total of 356 (35.3%)
of the medical students had satisfactory knowledge score, with 75% of them were female. The majority
of the students had positive attitude towards COVID-19 and practiced meticulous social distancing
during the pandemic. We noted that seniority influenced knowledge score, and this was evident as 264
(26.2%) of the students were in their clinical year. Overall, the knowledge scores regarding COVID-19
among the medical students in East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia was reasonable and there were
opportunities to augment these standards. Meticulous plans are needed to enhance knowledge and
preparedness of the current crops of medical students to be competent future frontliner for Malaysia. |
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