A Cross-sectional Study on Awareness and Correlating Factors Towards COVID-19 among Adult Women in Dhaka City

Dhaka, capital of COVID-19 s 9th most infected country a day, is appallingly receiving 9,422.1 infected per million to date. To upset this intimidating infected rate, public awareness, and adherence to control measures is a dire need. The objective of this cross-sectional analysis is to gauge the awareness and disclose the associating factors that influence the awareness among the adult women of Dhaka city, based on KAP theory. A self-administrated questionnaire following the national guidelines was developed to assess knowledge, attitudes, and practices of COVID-19 among respondents, which was disseminated to 139 respondents deploying the quota sampling process. Statistical representation of the baseline data spotted that only 56.11% of the participants own fair knowledge, while 83.44% demonstrates optimistic attitudes towards COVID-19. However, merely 52% of the respondents reported following the precautionary measures against COVID-19. Cross-tabulation on the surveyed data disclose that education, occupation, and monthly family income are significant predictors (p<; 0.05) of knowledge among the respondents. Significant Odd Ratios (p<; 0.05) further justifies the reflections of respondents' knowledge on the attitudinal and behavioral statements. This study detected suboptimal awareness and urged for the collective efforts orchestrated by the Ministry of Health to intensify the awareness through recommended channel to reduce associated health risk.