Knowledge and Preventive Practice on COVID-19 among Civil Employees Working In Selected Unit of Dhaka Cantonment.

Corona viruses are a large group of viruses that are responsible for sickness starting from mild common cold to extremely severe form of diseases. Prevention is the best method to control COVID-19 pandemic. The World Health Organization recommended that generating awareness by enriching knowledge of people to rule out COVID-19. To find out the level of knowledge and status of preventive practice on COVID-19 among Civil employees of Central Ordnance Depot (COD) and Central Mechanical Transport Depot (CMTD) of Dhaka Cantonment. This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among 151 civil employees of COD (Central Ordnance Depot) and CMTD (Central Mechanical Transport Depot), Dhaka cantonment from July 2020 to June 2021. Systematic random sampling technique was used to select the respondents. Data collection was done by face to face interview with using semi-structured questionnaire. The mean age of the respondent was 37.94±10.12 years. Among the respondents 84.8% were male, rest 15.2% were female. Mean score of knowledge highest (17.73) in 18-29 years age group, in female (17.83), 2nd class employee (18.00) and those qualified in graduation and above (17.27). Regarding level of knowledge 77.48% respondents had excellent knowledge, of which most of them were doing practice. The association between knowledge and preventive practice of COVID-19 on hand washing (p=0.01), wearing face mask (p=0.000), maintaining social distance (p=0.002) were found statistically significant. In this study most of the respondents had 'excellent' and 'good' level of knowledge on COVID-19, of which most of them were doing practice. There are some, those who had knowledge but not doing practice. On the other hand some had no knowledge on particular event of COVID-19, but were doing practice unknowingly.