11 October 2020: Clinical Research
Factors Affecting Infection Control Behaviors to Prevent COVID-19: An Online Survey of Nursing Students in Anhui, China in March and April 2020
Ting Yuan 1BCDEFG , Huan Liu 2ACE* , Xiang Dong Li 3BCEF , Hai Rong Liu 4ACDE*DOI: 10.12659/MSM.925877
Med Sci Monit 2020; 26:e925877
Table 2 Level of knowledge of COVID-19 (N=613).
| Items | Correct answers | Incorrect answers | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | N | % | |
| Q1. COVID-19 is a respiratory infectious disease caused by coronavirus (T) | 585 | 95.4 | 28 | 4.6 |
| Q2. The first case of human infection with COVID-19 reported in Wuhan China in 2019 (T) | 401 | 65.4 | 212 | 34.6 |
| Q3. Coronavirus can be fatal (T) | 584 | 95.3 | 29 | 4.7 |
| Q4. Ultraviolet light, heat sensitivity, 56°C for 30 min, ether, 75% alcohol, chlorine disinfectant, peracetic acid, chloroform inactivate virus (T) | 485 | 79.1 | 128 | 20.9 |
| Q5. The main symptoms are fever, dry cough, and fatigue. Other symptoms are stuffy nose, runny nose, sore throat, myalgia, and diarrhea (T) | 559 | 91.2 | 54 | 8.8 |
| Q6. Severe symptoms are dyspnea and/or hypoxemia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, multiorgan dysfunction, septic shock (T) | 538 | 87.8 | 75 | 12.2 |
| Q7. Respiratory droplets (sneezing, coughing) (T) | 590 | 96.2 | 23 | 3.8 |
| Q8. Close contact with the patient (T) | 431 | 70.3 | 182 | 29.7 |
| Q9. Contact with virus-contaminated objects (T) | 563 | 91.8 | 50 | 8.2 |
| Q10. Aerosol (T) | 544 | 88.7 | 69 | 11.3 |
| Q11. Transplacental transmission (F) | 145 | 23.7 | 468 | 76.3 |
| Q12. COVID-19 infection was believed to originate in bats(T) | 423 | 69.0 | 190 | 31.0 |
| Q13. Antibiotics can help treatment (F) | 114 | 18.6 | 499 | 81.4 |
| Q14. Antiviral can help treatment (F) | 242 | 39.5 | 371 | 60.5 |
| Q15. Rehabilitated plasma helps treatment (T) | 443 | 72.3 | 170 | 27.7 |
| Q16. Traditional Chinese medicine (Huoxiang Zhengqi capsule/Lotus Qingwen capsule) helps treatment (T) | 296 | 48.3 | 317 | 51.7 |
| Q17. Vaccines to prevent new coronavirus infections are available (F) | 183 | 29.9 | 430 | 70.1 |
| Q18. The population is generally susceptible to infection (T) | 459 | 74.9 | 154 | 25.1 |
| Q19. Real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction can help to diagnose COVID-19 (T) | 370 | 60.4 | 243 | 39.6 |
| Q20. Viral next-generation sequencing can help to diagnose COVID-19 (T) | 480 | 78.3 | 133 | 21.7 |
| Q21. The incubation period of coronavirus is from 1 to 14 days (T) | 498 | 81.2 | 115 | 18.8 |