Nutritional knowledge attitudes and practices towards the prevention and control of COVID-19 among educated young adults in Bangladesh

Background: To strengthen the immune system and reduce the risk of infectious diseases like novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), a sound knowledge, attitude, and practice about healthy eating patterns and well-balanced diet ensuring proper nutrition is highly important. However, the relevant information is quite limited and still unknown in Bangladesh. The objective of this study was to assess the levels of nutritional knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards the prevention and control of COVID-19 among the educated young adult population in Bangladesh. Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out among 166 educated young adults (aged 20– 40 years) recruited conveniently using online social media platforms. A Google form link of the structured questionnaire was distributed to the potential respondents through Facebook and Messenger, and also invited to participate. Participant’s self-reported responses were recorded. Both descriptive and comparative (Chi-square) statistics were used. Results: Of all [mean ± standard deviation (SD) age 27.4±3.5 years], majority were men (54.8%). Around two-third of the respondents had an average level of nutritional knowledge (65.4%), attitudes (68.1%) and practices (68.6%) about prevention and control of COVID-19, while the good levels were found in around one-fifth of them. And, the level of nutritional practices was found to be significantly related to sex (P=0.012). Conclusions: Majority of the study population had an average level of nutritional knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards the prevention and control of COVID-19. It demands nutrition-related health promotion and health educational programs for the population.journal articl

Knowledge attitude and practices towards chronic kidney disease among type-2 diabetic patients in Bangladesh

INTRODUCTION: Having proper knowledge, attitude, and practices (KAP) towards chronic kidney disease (CKD) among type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients is very important to reduce the disease burden. However, the information about KAP towards CKD among Bangladeshi T2DM patients is unknown, based on the available literatures till the date. OBJECTIVES: We aimed to assess the KAP towards CKD among T2DM patients attended a selected hospital in Dhaka city. METHODS AND MATERIALS: In this cross-sectional study, we conveniently selected Aalok hospital and also its 224 T2DM patients who attended the outdoor. We excluded the already developed CKD patients and aged over 70 years. We adopted a questionnaire from a validated instrument consisted of a 10 itemed knowledge, 8 itemed attitude, and 7 itemed practice domains towards CKD (total 25 items). Data were collected by face-to-face interviews. Both descriptive and comparative (Independent Sample t-tests and One-way ANOVA tests) statistics were used for data analysis where appropriates. RESULTS: Women respondents were higher (69.6%). The mean age of the respondents was 49.8±11.3 years. Most of them had average level of knowledge (69.6%) and attitude (60.7%). Majority also reported a good hypothetical practices in general if they would find out to have CKD. Knowledge was significantly associated (p<0.05) with sex, level of education, occupation, and income, whereas attitude was with sex, occupation, and income. CONCLUSION: T2DM patients of our study reported mostly average level of knowledge and attitude, and a good hypothetical practices in general towards CKD. Proper health awareness programs are needed to increase the KAP towards CKD among T2DM patients in Bangladesh