Abstract:Background: Though the government of Bangladesh has taken unprecedented initiatives to control current outbreak of the Covid-19, it has reached its stage of community spreading. For successful implementation of the control measures, it needs people's active participation, which is related to their attitudes, perceptions towards the disease. Therefore, the main objective of the study was to explore the attitudes, perceptions, and practices of the rural people of Bangladesh regarding Covid-19 outbreak.
Methods: The study was conducted from 02 April, 2020 to 15 April, 2020 adopting a qualitative survey method and interviewing a total of 80 IDI participants and 40 KII participants over the phone from the selected 8 administrative upazilas and unions applying a multistage random sampling technique covering all the 8 administrative divisions of the country. The IDI participants were selected using snowball sampling technique and findings of the study presented in thematic approach.......
Key Word: Attitude, Perception, Practice, Covid-19, Rural people, Bangladesh, Qualitative study
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