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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">3583</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"> http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2021.SP197</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Health Education Strategy for Improving the Attitude of Adults Towards Covid-19 Precautions in Udenu&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Nwachukwu</surname><given-names>Ruphina U.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Agboeze</surname><given-names>Matthias U.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Ugwueze</surname><given-names>Michael O.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Ugwunnadi</surname><given-names>Chinasa M.</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>170</fpage><lpage>176</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>Background: Due to the rising cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria, the government has adopted some safety precautions to control the spread. However, the poor attitude of adults towards COVID-19 safety precautions has aided the spread of the virus. Hence, there is a need to assess ways to change the attitude of adults towards the Covid-19 pandemic. Objectives: This study investigated the health education strategy for improving the attitude of adults towards COVID-19 safety precautions in Udenu. Methods: The study is a naturalistic observation study. The attitude of adults in Udenu towards COVID-19 safety precautions was observed before and after implementing a health education strategy to determine the effectiveness of the strategy in improv ing the attitude of adults towards COVID-19 safety precautions. 4 communities in Udenu were observed for the study. Results: The findings revealed that there was a significant improvement in the attitude of the adult towards COVID-19 safety precautions after receiving health education. Hence, more community health workers should be trained by Nigerian Center for Disease Control (NCDC). Conclusion: COVID-19 knowledge and attitude of adults could be effectively improved through health education strategy such as the use of trained community health workers for the COVID-19 awareness programme.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Adults</kwd><kwd> Attitude</kwd><kwd> Covid-19</kwd><kwd> Health Education</kwd><kwd> SARS-COV-2</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
