Knowledge on Preparedness and Prevention Response of COVID-19 among Teachers of Bule Hora University, Oromia Region, Ethiopia 2021
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Abstract
Background:COVID-19 has been a cause of worldwide alarm and a pandemicas The World Health Organization announced the outbreaks.Education is important, but Covid-19 made it too difficult. Only teachers can protect students by adhering to guidelines in order to ensure a safe and secure educational environment.This study was to assess the knowledge on prevention response and preparedness of Covid-19 among teachers of Bule Hora University, Oromia Region, Ethiopia. To have a safe environment for the students to have quality education by following all the guidelines.
Methods:A cross-sectional study was conducted in Bule Hora Universityon academic staff.Simple random sampling technique was employed to select 421 teachers as study participants from various colleges. The data were collected by using a pretested structured self administered questionnaire. The collected data were exported to statistical package for social science (SPSS) version 25.0 for analysis.
Results: The majority of the respondents (52.7%) were post graduated teachers. The overall prevention knowledge prevention response and preparedness of the participants towards the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was high. About 91.2% of the participant was heard about the novel coronavirus disease and Social Medias’ (70.3) were the main sourceof the information. About 73.9% of the respondents have good knowledge on prevention of Covid-19. 84.3% of the respondents have good knowledge on preparedness of Covid-19.Out of 421 participants,73.9% and 84.3% % of the participants were having good knowledge which gave hope to the university to reopen and have safe education by following all preventive protocols to prevent students from acquiring covid-19.
Conclusions: Majority of the participants had knew the ways of protecting themselves from the
Covid-19. But, there was deficiencies of changing these prevention knowledge to practice.
Faculty development programs and providing adequate resources can help the teachers to follow the protocols.