Research Article | Open Access
Perceived myths and misconceptions about COVID 19 among adult population in an urban area in Chennai – a web based cross sectional study
Raghul Saravanan, Stephen Thatiparthi ,Swetha N B
Pages: 2543-2549
Abstract
Since the news of COVID 19 disease origin till now there has been many changes in the understanding of the disease.Lack of knowledge and misconception often leads to arousal of myths among the community. Due to the misconception and myths, people use wrong measures for prevention and treatment, thereby making them prone to infection. This study is done to know about proportion of people with high level of myth and misconception among adults
Keywords
Corona virus,knowledge, misconceptions
