%0 Journal Article
%T Myths and realities: A novel study on COVID-19 among the medical students of Rural university of Sindh, Pakistan
%A Aneela Atta Ur Rahman
%A Mir Hassan Khoso
%A Zahid Shaikh
%A Ehsanullah Malik
%A Fahad Jibran Siyal
%A Almas Rahoojo
%A Arsalan Humayun
%A Saeed Ahmed Shaikh
%A Mirza Tasawer Baig
%A Ayaz Ali Unar
%A Khalida Unar
%A Raheela Salem
%A Muhammad Parial Shahani
%J Archives of Pharmacy Practice
%@ 2320-5210
%D 2021
%V 12
%N 1
%R 10.51847/oVWc0c4z5X
%P 16-20
%X The COVID-19 first appeared in Wuhan city of China. It was treated as a case of pneumonia having no etiology, first appeared in December 2019. Its spread was at a rapid pace worldwide. It was called COVID-19 by the WHO on 11th February 2020, as of 5th June 2020, there are 87,113 approved instances of COVID-19 in Pakistan. A cross-sectional descriptive research was conducted on 196 students of SMBBMU through an online questionnaire. It was self-generated and evaluated by epidemiologists. The questionnaire was developed through the WHO advisory from the Coronavirus disease advice for the public: Myth busters. It contains socio-demographic information and Twenty-four (24) questions related to myths and knowledge for COVID-19 and the response of questions was taken on true/false basis. A total of 196 students participated out of which 100 were females and 96 were males, the mean age of the participants was 22.4005 ± 4.97, and 168(85.7%) participants were unmarried. The highest ratio involved in this study was of the first year, which was about 82 (41.8%). The most common source of information was social media (n=118; 60.2%). Overall, 77.21% of the students were aware of the myths and realities regarding COVID-19. Data was analyzed through SPSS 24. The students had sound knowledge regarding the myths and realities of COVID-19. It is the responsibility of public health care providers to spread this knowledge into every part of the country through social media and other sources at their disposal. 
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