TY - JOUR T1 - Myths and realities: A novel study on COVID-19 among the medical students of Rural university of Sindh, Pakistan A1 - Aneela Atta Ur Rahman A1 - Mir Hassan Khoso A1 - Zahid Shaikh A1 - Ehsanullah Malik A1 - Fahad Jibran Siyal A1 - Almas Rahoojo A1 - Arsalan Humayun A1 - Saeed Ahmed Shaikh A1 - Mirza Tasawer Baig A1 - Ayaz Ali Unar A1 - Khalida Unar A1 - Raheela Salem A1 - Muhammad Parial Shahani JF - Archives of Pharmacy Practice JO - Arch Pharm Pract SN - 2320-5210 Y1 - 2021 VL - 12 IS - 1 DO - 10.51847/oVWc0c4z5X SP - 16 EP - 20 N2 - 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. UR - https://archivepp.com/article/myths-and-realities-a-novel-study-on-covid-19-among-the-medical-students-of-rural-university-of-sindh-pakistan ER -