Perception and risk of COVID-19 in Perú
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control, online survey, pandemic, preventionAbstract
The objective of this work was to evaluate, at the perceptual level, those aspects that condition individual and/or collective behaviors, in order to improve the prevention and control strategies of COVID-19. A cross-sectional study was conducted using an online survey. In the first part of the questionnaire, the sociodemographic information of the respondents was collected, including age, sex, and type of study. In the next part of the survey, the perception towards COVID-19 was evaluated as the way to prevent the disease, the perceived risk of contracting certain diseases, and the credibility of the information related to COVID-19. The data can be found on FIGSHARE. The age of the respondents was in an age range between 15-69 years, the majority being women 158 (59.3%) compared to 109 (40.7%). Respondents were asked how worried they would be if they contracted COVID-19132 (49.5%) responded that they would be very worried, 97 (36.3%) were worried, 29 (10.9%) were neutral, 7 (2.6%) were little concerned and 2 (0.7%) not at all concerned. In conclusion, our study shows that the majority of respondents are aware of the COVID-19 disease and of preventive measures.
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