Knowledge on Covid-19 among undergraduate students in Universiti Putra Malaysia
Since early June 2021, COVID-19 cases in Malaysia reported averagely above than 5000 positive cases a day. Regarding thefluctuate of positive cases, it is important to consider the knowledge on COVID-19 during the pandemic. Undergraduatesstudent population had selected to provide an image of their r...
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| author | Che Me, Nurul Samsiah Abdul Rahman, Haliza Abu Bakar, Azrin Shah |
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| description | Since early June 2021, COVID-19 cases in Malaysia reported averagely above than 5000 positive cases a day. Regarding thefluctuate of positive cases, it is important to consider the knowledge on COVID-19 during the pandemic. Undergraduatesstudent population had selected to provide an image of their responses to pandemic. Objective: The aim of this study is to compare the score of the knowledge COVID-19 prevention among students in UPM. Methodology: A cross-sectional survey was conducted from 18 - 28 June 2021. Total of 310 respondents participated in this study, and classified by 3 groups which are health sciences, engineering and social science. Purposive sampling used where the participants have same interest of classified groups. Result and Discussion: A total of 95 (30.6%) respondents are male and 215 (69.4%) are female. The average knowledge score was 10.8 (SD = 1.5, range 0-13). There are significant different of knowledge score on COVID-19 between different group of students. Conclusion: The majority of undergraduate students were knowledgeable of the important facts in pandemic COVID-19. |
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| spelling | upm-1020672023-06-16T04:01:11Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/102067/ Knowledge on Covid-19 among undergraduate students in Universiti Putra Malaysia Che Me, Nurul Samsiah Abdul Rahman, Haliza Abu Bakar, Azrin Shah Since early June 2021, COVID-19 cases in Malaysia reported averagely above than 5000 positive cases a day. Regarding thefluctuate of positive cases, it is important to consider the knowledge on COVID-19 during the pandemic. Undergraduatesstudent population had selected to provide an image of their responses to pandemic. Objective: The aim of this study is to compare the score of the knowledge COVID-19 prevention among students in UPM. Methodology: A cross-sectional survey was conducted from 18 - 28 June 2021. Total of 310 respondents participated in this study, and classified by 3 groups which are health sciences, engineering and social science. Purposive sampling used where the participants have same interest of classified groups. Result and Discussion: A total of 95 (30.6%) respondents are male and 215 (69.4%) are female. The average knowledge score was 10.8 (SD = 1.5, range 0-13). There are significant different of knowledge score on COVID-19 between different group of students. Conclusion: The majority of undergraduate students were knowledgeable of the important facts in pandemic COVID-19. Human Resource Management Academic Research Society 2022-12-08 Article PeerReviewed Che Me, Nurul Samsiah and Abdul Rahman, Haliza and Abu Bakar, Azrin Shah (2022) Knowledge on Covid-19 among undergraduate students in Universiti Putra Malaysia. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 12 (spec.). 21 - 28. ISSN 2222-6990 https://hrmars.com/index.php/IJARBSS/article/view/15812/Knowledge-on-Covid-19-among-Undergraduate-Students-in-Universiti-Putra-Malaysia 10.6007/IJARBSS/v12-i14/15812 |
| spellingShingle | Che Me, Nurul Samsiah Abdul Rahman, Haliza Abu Bakar, Azrin Shah Knowledge on Covid-19 among undergraduate students in Universiti Putra Malaysia |
| title | Knowledge on Covid-19 among undergraduate students in Universiti Putra Malaysia |
| title_full | Knowledge on Covid-19 among undergraduate students in Universiti Putra Malaysia |
| title_fullStr | Knowledge on Covid-19 among undergraduate students in Universiti Putra Malaysia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Knowledge on Covid-19 among undergraduate students in Universiti Putra Malaysia |
| title_short | Knowledge on Covid-19 among undergraduate students in Universiti Putra Malaysia |
| title_sort | knowledge on covid-19 among undergraduate students in universiti putra malaysia |
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