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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">3359</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"> http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2021.13304</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Correlation of Risk Perception with the COVID-19 Related Knowledge and Preventive Measures: A Study on Indian Pharmacy Students&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Purohit</surname><given-names>Deepika</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Pandey</surname><given-names>Parijat</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Makhija</surname><given-names>Manish</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Manchanda</surname><given-names>Deeksha</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Rathi</surname><given-names>Jyoti</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Kumar</surname><given-names>Deepak</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Verma</surname><given-names>Ravinder</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Jalwal</surname><given-names>Pawan</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Mittal</surname><given-names>Vineet</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Kaushik</surname><given-names>Deepak</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>3</day><month>02</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>113</fpage><lpage>119</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Introduction: A novel threat to mankind occurred in December 2019 which was an outbreak of infection caused by a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2 or 2019-nCoV). The infection was first developed in Wuhan, China, and has affected more than 200 countries around the world till now. Objective: The present study aims to assess the knowledge related to coronavirus disease (COVID-19), risk perception and preventive behaviours among the Pharmacy students in a part of India approximately 3 months after the onset of this outbreak in India. Methods: This survey was conducted from 2nd to 5th of September 2020 with Indian Pharmacy students (1st to 4th year). The knowledge, self-reported preventive behaviours and risk perceptions of COVID-19 were assessed using an online questionnaire. A total of 21 questions were there in the questionnaire in which 14 questions were about knowledge related to COVID-19, 4 items regarding preventive behaviours and 3 about risk perception. Results: A total of 268 participants completed the questionnaire. The participants were under the age group of 15-30 years. A high level of disease-related knowledge was found in the participants (77.66%). On an average 96.1% of participants were practising preventive behaviours. The aggregate score of items in risk perception section was found to be in the moderate range i.e., 5.38 out of 8. A significant negative correlation was obtained between risk perception and preventive behaviours. Conclusion: The trajectory and severity of this outbreak are very high, therefore, effective treatment against this global threat is required to be developed as early as possible. In the present study, a high level of disease-related knowledge and preventive behaviours were observed among the participants with a moderate level of risk perception.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd> COVID-19</kwd><kwd> Coronavirus</kwd><kwd> Outbreak</kwd><kwd> Preventive behaviours</kwd><kwd> Risk perception</kwd><kwd> SARS-CoV-2</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
