Bibliographic citations
Galvez, E., Vivas, N. (2022). Conocimientos, actitudes y prácticas (CAP) hacia la COVID-19 entre los estudiantes de medicina de sexto año en Perú [Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/13071
Galvez, E., Vivas, N. Conocimientos, actitudes y prácticas (CAP) hacia la COVID-19 entre los estudiantes de medicina de sexto año en Perú []. PE: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia; 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/13071
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title = "Conocimientos, actitudes y prácticas (CAP) hacia la COVID-19 entre los estudiantes de medicina de sexto año en Perú",
author = "Vivas Meza, Nicole Kristya Ysabel",
publisher = "Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia",
year = "2022"
}
Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) had a high morbidity and mortality rate. The narrow initial knowledge about the disease fostered misinformation in the population. In this context, medical students play an important role as a reference and source of information; that being the case, it is important to keep a constant update of concepts that will also be evaluated in hospital clinical practice. Assessing the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of sixth-year students would make it possible to assess their condition and establish academic measures prior to returning to clinical practices in the last year of medicine school. Objectives: Evaluate the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of sixth-year medicine students about COVID-19. Materials and methods: Cross-sectional descriptive study. An online questionnaire of 22 questions was given to the participants through the Google Form platform. At the end of the data collection time, these were recorded in a database for later analysis and reporting of the results. Results: A total of 130 medical students responded to the survey. 82.3% answered 10 or more of a total of 14 questions correctly. 63,8% considered themselves a potential source of contagion. 70,5% and 48% of students from private and public universities, respectively, received information about protocol measures in clinical practice from their university (p= 0.5). Conclusions: Most of the students presented an adequate level of knowledge. There was a good acceptance of the vaccines by all the respondents. Most students did not feel prepared to return to face-to-face clinical practice.
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