Assessment of awareness on Covid-19 among rural and urban women of Agra District
Achla Gakkhar1 , Priya Yadav2 and Atisha Bajpai3
Institute of Home Science, Khandari, Agra-282002 (India) Email.id. priyayadav6325@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
Covid-19 has become a major global human problem that is caused by a novel coronavirus. Coronavirus is one of the major pathogens that mainly targets the human respiratory system. The present study was planned to assess the awareness on Covid-19 in urban and rural areas of Agra. Multi-stage random sampling was used for area selection. Two villages and two slum areas were selected. A hundred women were selected aged between eighteen to sixty years by lottery method. A self-structured questionnaire was used for collecting the data. Awareness of respondents was assessed on general information, health, hygiene, vaccination and nutrition regarding Covid- 19. The finding of the study explains that Out of the total respondents, the majority of the women 53.00% had average hygiene awareness, 38.00% women had good vaccination awareness and 47.00% women had average and good nutrition awareness. There is no statisitically significant relationship between the awareness about covid-19 and the socio-economic status of women residing in urban and rural areas of Agra.