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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">3557</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url">http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2021.SP198</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Awareness, Attitudes, Vulnerability Perception and Actions Related to COVID-19 Disease Among Relatives and Neighbours of COVID 19 Patients: A Cross-sectional Survey&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>JD</surname><given-names>Shirpurwar</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>SJ</surname><given-names>Ingole</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>SB</surname><given-names>Mote</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>JR</surname><given-names>Ingole</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>30</day><month>03</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>rn</volume><issue>ch</issue><fpage>19</fpage><lpage>23</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: India is having an evolving outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) which is requiring social distancing, recurrent lockdowns, and other measures to contain it. Governments, Non-Government Organizations, Electronic Media, etc have been trying to make social awareness about the disease. Objective of this study is to determine awareness, attitudes, vulnerability perception, and actions related to COVID-19 disease amongst relatives and neighbours of COVID 19 Patients. Methods: We surveyed relatives and neighbours of patients that are admitted to COVID hospital via direct verbal communica tion / telephonic communication with the questionnaire to assess their awareness, attitudes, vulnerability perception, and actions related to COVID-19 disease. We interviewed a total of 532 participants (3.70% illiterate and 32.33% from rural areas) aged 17 years to 81 years. Results: 17.29% of participants were convinced that they were about to get coronavirus infection __ampersandsignldquo;very likely__ampersandsignrdquo; as they accompa nied the patient while half (46.62%)of participants thought it is __ampersandsignldquo;somewhat likely__ampersandsignrdquo;. About one-third (36.09%) of participants were sure that they will __ampersandsignldquo;Not likely__ampersandsignrdquo; catch the infection. Conclusion: Most participants had critical knowledge of Coronavirus disease in 2019. Many of them were concerned about the disease and were positively motivated for preventive measures.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>2019</kwd><kwd> Actions</kwd><kwd> Attitudes</kwd><kwd> Awareness</kwd><kwd> Corona</kwd><kwd> Coronavirus</kwd><kwd> Covid 19</kwd><kwd> India</kwd><kwd> Pandemic</kwd><kwd> Vulnerability Perception</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
