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Assessing Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice towards COVID-19 among Sub Assistant Agriculture Officers: An Empirical Study in Bangladesh
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Author Affiliations
Bangladesh Agricultural University, People's University of Bangladesh
Published InJournal of Contemporary Studies in Epidemiology and Public Health
Year2020
Citations10
Abstract
The government of Bangladesh pays special attention to the agriculture sector to limit the current and after-effects of COVID-19 regarding food insecurity. Sub assistant agriculture officers - the frontline extension workers are working to maintain the normal trend of production and marketing amid COVID-19 pandemic, which, in turn, possess severe health threat of virus infection. Therefore, we investigated the knowledge, attitude, and practice towards COVID-19 among the sub assistant agriculture officers. The study was conducted in Gopalganj and Narail districts of Bangladesh with a total of 110 respondents. Data were collected through group interviews using a structured questionnaire in June 2020. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, chi square tests and binary logistic regressions. We found that about…
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