A Study to Assess Awareness and Attitude of Adolescents regarding Covid-19 in selected Pre-University Colleges of Mysuru with A View to Develop Health Awareness Programme

Abstract

Introduction: The Whole world, COVID-19 is a major public health problem. Over 1,18,000 cases of the COVID-19 illness is recorded in over 110 countries and territories around the world and sustained the risk of further global spread. Adolescents are more likely to engage in risky health practices related to COVID-19. To curtail COVID-19 spread and keep infections at a control, many countries across the globe have instituted lockdown and social distancing. Aim: To assess the awareness and attitude of adolescents regarding COVID-19 in selected Pre-University college at Mysuru with a view to develop Health Awareness program. Methods: The research design was descriptive research design and convenience sampling was adopted to select 100 adolescents in Pre-University college at Mysuru. The data was collected and analysed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. Result: The results reveal that 57 adolescents had average awareness and 4 had good awareness and 39 had poor awareness. According to attitude 95 were having positive attitude and 5 adolescents had negative attitude towards COVID-19. Significant correlation was not found between awareness and attitude of adolescents. Significant association was found between awareness and age in years, gender and have you been vaccinated for COVID-19. Significant association was found ix x between attitude and is any of your family members got infected by COVID-19. Conclusion: In order to enhance the awareness and attitude of adolescents regarding COVID-19, Health awareness programme was conducted at the end. So that health care professionals play an important role in educating the adolescents to facilitate healthy growth and development and healthy practices in day- to -day activities.