44RqR – Vol. 10 Nº 4 | Otoño 2022Knowledge, individual beliefs and preventive behaviours regarding COVID-19 in Spanish unviersity students

  1. María del Mar Fernández-Álvarez 1
  2. Edurne Zabaleta del Olmo 2
  3. M Antonín Martín 3
  4. Judit Cachero Rodríguez 1
  5. Rubén Martín Payo 1
  1. 1 Facultad de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Oviedo
  2. 2 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
  3. 3 Escuela Universitaria de Enfermería, Escuelas Universitarias Gimbernat, Universidad Autóno-ma de Barcelona, Spain
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RqR Enfermería Comunitaria

ISSN: 2254-8270

Any de publicació: 2022

Volum: 10

Número: 4

Pàgines: 44-57

Tipus: Article

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Objective: the objective of this study was to assess the knowledge, beliefs, per-ceptions, and preventive behaviors for CO-VID-19 among university students in Spain. Method: the WHO survey «Monitoring knowledge, risk perceptions, preventive be-haviors and trust to inform pandemic out-break response» was used in this cross-sec-tional study conducted in May 2020. Results: 1,285 students joined the study, with an average age of 23.4 (SD=6.0). The average score for self-assessed knowledge was 5.5 (SD= 1,1) (range 0-7). Most of the effective measures were correctly identified as such, with an average of correctly identi-fied measures of 6.9 (SD=1.8) (range 0-17). The average score for infection probability and severity (range 1-7) was 3.8 (SD= 1.5 and 1.6 respectively). The number of effec-tive measures adopted to prevent CO-VID-19 was 8.6 (SD =1.3) (range 0-10) and the number non-effective measures was 0.4 (SD=0.8) (range 0-7).Conclusions: the results show an ade-quate level of knowledge about symptoms and preventive measures. Risk perception, severity, infection probability and ability to avoid infection suggest overconfidence, which should be considered.

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