COVID-19 pandemic: Public attitudes and opinions on a global health crisis among residents in Sarawak, Malaysia
In Sarawak, Malaysia, several exceptional safety precautions and measures were adopted to prevent the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic from spreading. Individuals’ attitudes and opinions have impact on their obedience toward control procedures. Sarawak residents’ attitud...
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Prime National Publishing Corp.
2023
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/43404/4/COVID-19%20pandemic%20-%20Copy.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/43404/ https://wmpllc.org/ojs/index.php/jem/article/view/3522 https://doi.org/10.5055/jem.0777 |
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| Summary: | In Sarawak, Malaysia, several exceptional safety
precautions and measures were adopted to prevent
the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
pandemic from spreading. Individuals’ attitudes and
opinions have impact on their obedience toward control
procedures. Sarawak residents’ attitudes and
opinions toward COVID-19 were investigated in the
present study. An online questionnaire developed
using Google Forms was completed by 1,462 residents
from all 12 divisions in Sarawak. The findings show
that most Sarawak residents have positive attitudes
and opinions about current standard operating procedures
(SOPs) toward COVID-19. More than half of
the respondents stand unbiased for the effectiveness
of these SOPs, while most respondents have a neutral
standpoint regarding the current law enforcement.
The partial least square regression results found using
the WarpPLS 7.0 software indicate that Sarawak
residents’ attitudes, opinions about current SOPs, and
their effectiveness are significantly linked to practices
for the prevention of COVID-19 outbreak, whereas
these residents’ opinions about current law enforcement
were observed to have no significant relationship
with proper practices for measures. |
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