Rapid Survey for New Corona Virus (COVID-19) Disease Prevention Behaviors Awareness
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The purposes of this research were to study the awareness of the novel corona virus disease prevention behaviors and to compare the disease prevention behaviors of different genders. The research population was 21,891,425 people from northeastern of Thailand. The research sampling size was clustered by Isarael for 400 people, and 568 samples was randomized using simple random sampling from every province in northeastern of Thailand. The research instrument was an awareness assessment of prevention behaviors with the Cronbach's alpha coefficient of .80. The statistics used was mean, standard deviation, and MANOVA. The findings revealed that 1. the awareness of the novel corona virus disease prevention behaviors was at a high level both in overall and in each aspect whereas the hand washing behavior and social distance behavior was at a moderate level, 2. the novel corona virus disease prevention behaviors awareness between males and females was significantly different at .05. The novel corona virus disease prevention behaviors' mean of the female (in both overall and each aspect) was higher than every behaviors of the male’s. The benefits of this research can be fundamental data to develop the awareness of the novel corona virus disease prevention behaviors of the people on the northeastern of Thailand.
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