Review Article
Sukaina Rahman Neamah
European Journal of Medical and Educational Technologies, Volume 13, Issue 3, Article No: em2014
ABSTRACT
The ability to perceive the principle symptoms of COVID-19 is very critical as to diminish and control disease in a suitable time. There are numerous similar symptoms of cold, influenza, hypersensitivities and novel coronavirus. The greatest difference is the brevity of breath related with COVID-19. This flu virus or cold does not cause brevity of breath except if it advances to pneumonia. Different symptoms of COVID-19 are fever and coughing dry, extended to incorporate chills, loss of taste and smell, ache of muscle and head and sore throat. A cold, incorporate sneezing, cough, stodgy nose. It clears up within few period by itself. Influenza, incorporate fever or hot/chills, ache of muscle and head and runny nose. It can prompt genuine complications, e.g. pneumonia and death. Sensitivity symptoms are hypersensitivities, irritated eyes, sneezing and nasal runny relying upon the season and environment. In spite of overlap, the regular symptoms of COVID-19 are more like influenza than the normal cold or sensitivity. Individuals at home can be able to treat mild COVID-19 symptoms. On the off chance that they notice increasingly severe indications. In case of serious symptoms, an individual should look for medical assistance right away and inform the health care insurance supplier that they may have COVID-19, to assist them with avoiding potential risk as well as take the appropriate safety. It is important to bear in mind that the correct diagnosis of COVID-19 is not clinical, but rather by examining a sample from the nose or mouth in a laboratory.
Keywords: SARS, flu, COVID-19, Wuhan, symptom
Original Article
Alya Hassan Alhajjaj, Huda Hassan Aldarweesh, Zainab Abdullah Alghawi
European Journal of Medical and Educational Technologies, Volume 13, Issue 3, Article No: em2013
ABSTRACT
Background: COVID-19 infection has spread to many countries including Saudi Arabia. This study was designed to assess the knowledge, attitude and awareness among the public in Saudi Arabia about COVID-19 pandemic.
Materials and Methods: It was a cross-sectional online Arabic survey. It was conducted on 23rd March 2020. It included all adult residents in Saudi Arabia.
Results: A total of 2069 questionnaires were returned completed. Most of the participants were females (78.2%) and from the Eastern province (92.9%). The median age was 35.69 years. The majority of the participants had sufficient knowledge (score ≥ 6) with statistical significance in relation to age, gender, marital status, occupation and educational level. Most of them (75.90%) got their knowledge about COVID-19 from Social media. The majority of the participants supported the government regulations and the protective measures taken for COVID-19 prevention. Most of them reported frequent handwashing and maintaining social distancing.
Conclusion: Although our study was conducted at the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic in Saudi Arabia, it showed that our participants had good knowledge level that was reflected on their positive attitude, awareness, and their precautionary measures. Because our participants were mainly from the Eastern province, further studies are needed to investigate other provinces in Saudi Arabia.
Keywords: knowledge, attitude, Saudi, COVID-19, public
Original Article
Abdul Rahim Chandio
European Journal of Medical and Educational Technologies, Volume 13, Issue 3, Article No: em2012
ABSTRACT
The current study provides an overview of the COVID-19 implications on the health workers by means of their mental health and psychosocial aspects. It develops the sense of fear and susceptibility of the health workers for coping the strategies and medical targets and such perceived stress remained so fatal and harmful to the workers psyche to meet the job satisfaction under the prevailing situation due to the outbreak of the pandemic COVID-19. The prevention measures failed and became a futile attempt to seize the atmosphere of stressfulness for the frontline workers to combat the COVID-19 and it returned in the form of fear, anxiety and emotional dilemmas of isolation and loneliness. This study assists to investigate perception of the medical workers by empirical means either they face psychosocial worriness and mentally stress relating to their service during the COVID-19 outbreak in Pakistan. For the data collection, an online survey was conducted from 30 April to 20 May in which 392 questionnaires were distributed among Pakistani doctors and paramedical staff and the response rate remained 256 (65.3%) to discover their concern on the rising dilemma of the COVID-19. For the empirical analysis, proposed variables were adopted to carry out the study in order to find out the intentional level of the health workers regarding their mental distress and psychosocial problems. For the data collection, respondents were participated from the Sindh province of Pakistan in which data was analyzed through SPSS version 24 as it applied the regressions and Pearson‘s correlation to test the hypothesis that resulted to reveal all factors to sustain the significant positive relationship with dependent construct.
Keywords: Pakistan, COVID-19, implications, mental health
Research Article
MD Nafiul Alam Khan
European Journal of Medical and Educational Technologies, Volume 13, Issue 2, Article No: em2010
ABSTRACT
Introduction: The COVID-19 is probably the most terrible pandemic in the world, because there is no approved vaccine or treatment for this rapidly spreading disease. Most of the country is locked down for reducing spreading disease. Due to lockdown situations people are afraid and confused for getting basic food available at hand.
Objective: The purpose of this study is to investigate the expanded theory of planned behaviour model and adding risk perception variables for intention to reserve food during covid-19 pandemic situation among Bangladeshi internet users.
Material and Methods: A total of 192 consumers living in Bangladesh actively interested in a cross-sectional web-based survey. A standardized questionnaire was generated using Google Forms and a link was shared through authors’ platforms. This sample comprised 110 (57.3%) males and 82 (42.7%) females. Collected information was statistically analyzed using structural equation modelling assessment.
Results: The estimation process assesses the precision and validity of the variables. Cronbach’s alpha and composite reliability (Pc) was used to test the durability of the design. However, this study found Cronbach’s alpha and Pc between 0.842 to 0.730 and 0.864 to 0.744. Moreover, Convergent validity is effectively identified in the findings of the analysis. Therefore, the calculation concept of the analysis has been tested successfully.
Conclusion: In this analysis, we see that the stronger the risk perception of consumers, the greater the attitude of consumers to buy reserve products. This proof that high-risk awareness, in the case of a COVID-19 pandemic or others pandemic situation, can lead to the purchasing of goods that are lack of patience or common sense. The paper presented a new perspective on the negative consequences of risk perception among Bangladeshi internet users.
Keywords: COVID-19, reserve food, intention, pandemic, Bangladesh
Review Article
Mohamed Amine Baba, Youssef Bouchriti, Abderrahmane Achbani, Ahmed Kharbach, Hasnaa Sine, Aziz Naciri
European Journal of Medical and Educational Technologies, Volume 13, Issue 3, Article No: em2008
ABSTRACT
In March 2020, the WHO declared COVID-19 as a pandemic. At present, the curative vaccine has not yet been developed, older age and higher comorbidity levels are associated with more severe COVID-19 symptoms. Indeed, the cancer community currently faces many difficult questions.
Keywords: Coronavirus, COVID-19, cancer, 2019-nCoV, pneumonia, oncology
Original Article
Teh Exodus Akwa, Teh Rene Ning, John M. Maingi
European Journal of Medical and Educational Technologies, Volume 13, Issue 2, Article No: em2007
ABSTRACT
Introduction: COVID-19 (coronavirus) has become a global threat to the human population. The virus which originated from China in December, 2019 has swept across continents in the world. Cameroon has been one of the countries with a high infectious rate. Lack of awareness plays a major role in the rise of COVID-19 cases. Studies have shown that there exists a strong correlation between the perception of a disease and a ready compliance to health recommendations.
Objective: This paper studied the awareness and perceptions by the general population of Cameroon on the existence and spread of COVID-19.
Methods: The study involved a qualitative survey designed by online questionnaires which were made available to the population of Cameroon through e-mails and ‘WhatsApp’. The survey included the perception of the origin and existence of the COVID-19 virus, its mode of transmission, preventive and control measures. The data obtained from respondents were analysed by descriptive statistics. The data were entered in a spread sheet, Microsoft Excel and normality determined. One-way ANOVA and means comparison using Tukey’s test (α = 0.05) was performed to check whether the perception of respondents differed significantly.
Results: A total of 573 respondents were obtained. From the analysed results, a greater proportion of the respondents (P˂ 0.05) were aware of the COVID 19 existence, transmission and preventive strategies. This knowledge could lead to a reduction in the spread of the disease.
Conclusion: Our findings suggested that there’s more need for public sensitisation of the virus especially its method of transmission, control and prevention.
Keywords: perceptions, COVID-19, control, Cameroon
Review Article
Sadeq Kadhim Hachim
European Journal of Medical and Educational Technologies, Volume 13, Issue 1, Article No: em2005
ABSTRACT
In the early of 2020, people are challenging a pandemic in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). SARS-CoV-2 causes coronavirus disease, abbreviated as COVID-19. At the time of this writing, SARS-CoV-2 is spreading in multiple countries worldwide. There are above two million cases in different region of world. This virus appears to be a new human pathogen. Currently there are no vaccines, monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), or drugs available for SARS-CoV-2, though many are in rapid development and some may be accessible in a short time. This aim of this review that human convalescent serum is an option for stoppage and treatment of COVID-19 disease. Explain main advantage of convalescent serum, in addition to disadvantage of this method.
Keywords: COVID-19, convalescent serum, treatment, antibody
Original Article
Abita Rahmoune
European Journal of Medical and Educational Technologies, Volume 13, Issue 1, Article No: em2004
ABSTRACT
At the end of December 2019, a novel coronavirus (2019-Cov) emerged in China specifically it appeared in the city of Wuhan, and it has spread to the entire world very fast and in a very short time, and they posed an international public health emergency in a couple of weeks, and has attracted global attention and attained recently the position of a very high-risk category by world health organization (WHO).
This research concerns to investigate the course of the pandemic by mathematical modeling based on the information that the time-dependent change (spreading) rate of the H number of individuals who have caught a contagious disease is proportional to the multiplication of the numbers of those who have caught the disease in time delay and those who have not. According to the results of the mathematical modeling in our study, the course of the pandemic to be stable in the near time.
Keywords: COVID-19, time-varying delay, energy decay result
Original Article
A Fargana, A Arifutzzaman
European Journal of Medical and Educational Technologies, Volume 13, Issue 1, Article No: em2002
ABSTRACT
A new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), arisen towards the end of December 2019 in the city of Wuhan, province of Hubei, People’s Republic of China. It has spread to the entire world very short duration and very fast. The main goal is to investigate the spreading rate of the coronavirus in Malaysia by using mathematical modeling based on the real-time data. Due to the insufficient precautions, the model shows a very fast change. Based on the estimation, this model regards that after the certain period (about time (t1 )= ~50) the number of infections will go to decrease.
Keywords: Coronavirus, COVID-19, mathematical modeling, spreading rate, Malaysia
Review Article
Mohamed Lounis
European Journal of Medical and Educational Technologies, Volume 13, Issue 1, Article No: em2001
ABSTRACT
Covid-19 is an infectious disease caused by a new virus called SARS-CoV-2. First reported in Wuhan, in China, the disease is now considered as a pandemic of global interest. Algeria is the fourth most affect countries in Africa with 2718 positive cases in April 20 and the 55th in the world. Since its apparition the Algerian government has implemented a range of measures to reduce the spread of the virus. The chronology of actions taken is reported in this manuscript.
Keywords: COVID-19, Algeria, coronavirus, pandemic, prevention