TY - JOUR AU - Khan, Sadia Ibrar AU - Din, Mohi Ud AU - Mashhadi, Syed Fawad AU - Mohsin, Shamaila AU - Misbah, Samreen AU - Khan, Muhammad Mushtaq Ahmed PY - 2022/04/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Effect of an Educational Intervention on COVID-19 Awareness, Preventive Behaviors, and Risk Perceptions among Secondary School Students JF - Journal of Bahria University Medical and Dental College JA - J. Bahria Univ. Med. Dent. Coll. VL - 12 IS - 02 SE - Original Articles DO - 10.51985/JBUMDC202205 UR - https://jbumdc.bahria.edu.pk/index.php/ojs/article/view/867 SP - 83-87 AB - <p><span class="fontstyle0">Objectives: </span><span class="fontstyle2">To determine the impact of an educational intervention on secondary school students' Covid-19 awareness<br>and risk perception, as well as their preventive practices.<br></span><span class="fontstyle0">Study design and settings: </span><span class="fontstyle2">A quasi-experimental study conducted in private secondary schools</span><span class="fontstyle3">.<br></span><span class="fontstyle0">Methodology: </span><span class="fontstyle2">The study duration was two months. Students who gave consent and didn’t have COVID-19 infection in<br>past were included by non-probability purposive sampling. Raosoft sample size calculator was used to calculate the sample<br>size and it came out to be 385 but a total of 380 students could be enrolled. Among these, 37 responses were invalid making<br>the total sample size to be 343. Ethical approval was taken from the institutional ethical review committee with approval<br>letter number i.e. ERC/ID/126. SPSS version 25 was used for the analysis of data. Frequencies and percentages were<br>calculated. Paired samples T-test was applied to see the difference in participants’ scores before and after the intervention.<br>A p-value = 0.05 was taken as significant.<br></span><span class="fontstyle0">Results: </span><span class="fontstyle2">The knowledge of students were improved from moderate to high level and the total percentile score from 74.86%<br>to 89.76% after intervention. Their practicing preventive behaviors were at a low level with scores of 69.37%. Their risk<br>perceptions remained at moderate levels and did not see any improvement.<br></span><span class="fontstyle0">Conclusion: </span><span class="fontstyle2">Participants practicing preventive behaviors were at a low level. Their knowledge scores improved from<br>moderate to high level after intervention but their risk perceptions remained at moderate levels and no change was seen</span> </p> ER -