Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice among Physical Therapists toward COVID-19 in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia-A Cross-Sectional Study

To curb the COVID-19 pandemic, the knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) of preventive measures play an essential role, and healthcare workers have had to endure a burden to care for COVID-19 patients. Thus, this study aimed to assess the weight of the KAP of physiotherapists in Saudi Arabia durin...

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Published in:Healthcare (Basel) 2022-01, Vol.10 (1), p.105
Main Authors: Alshahrani, Adel, Gautam, Ajay Prashad, Asiri, Faisal, Ahmad, Irshad, Alshahrani, Mastour Saeed, Reddy, Ravi Shankar, Alharbi, Mutasim D, Alkhathami, Khalid, Alzahrani, Hosam, Alshehri, Yasir S, Alqhtani, Raee
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age groups
Attitudes
Clinical medicine
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Cross-sectional studies
Disease prevention
Disease transmission
Information sources
Knowledge
Mortality
Pandemics
Patients
Physical therapists
Physical therapy
Questionnaires
Regression analysis
Response rates
Social networks
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Summary:To curb the COVID-19 pandemic, the knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) of preventive measures play an essential role, and healthcare workers have had to endure a burden to care for COVID-19 patients. Thus, this study aimed to assess the weight of the KAP of physiotherapists in Saudi Arabia during the COVID-19 pandemic. This was a cross-sectional study, where we circulated an online KAP questionnaire to 1179 physical therapists, and among those, 287 participated and completed the questionnaire. The collected responses were analyzed using descriptive statistics, -test, ANOVA, correlation, and regression analyses, and -value ≤ 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Both males and females participated in almost equal numbers; most of the participants were
ISSN:2227-9032
2227-9032
DOI:10.3390/healthcare10010105