Public Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Behavior towards COVID-19 among Non-Medical Malaysians in Klang Valley

Abstract

Musaib Shabeer Wani, Amir Chew, Weiqi Ling, Alicia Bonou and Dalvir Singh

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic was an unavoidable topic in everyone’s life. While the government seeked to reduce the number of cases by spreading information, there was always a question of how much the public actually digests.

Method: To ascertain strategies for better spread of information, this study surveyed 302 participants in the Klang Valley to determine the knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) levels of non-medically trained Malaysians towards the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the movement control order, the questionnaire was cleverly disseminated via an online survey.

Results: The results of the questionnaire showed that there were positive associations between sociodemographic groups such as gender and ethnicity and attitude levels. There was also a significant association between attitude levels and practice levels, in which a high attitude level is greatly associated with high practice level.

Conclusion: This study concluded that knowledge, attitude and practice are having a significant role in prevention of COVID-19.

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